Experts from hosting firm WP engine analysed 10 million passwords . Like previous research , they revealed the top 50 most used passwords . They also listed top colours , superheroes and verbs used in login details . From this they noticed many use the same seemingly complex passwords . And this is because these words follow set patterns on a keyboard . The researchers found that people who type their password using one of those simple characters are more likely to reuse it than users with longer passwords. Study also found women have better passwords , on average , than men . And people born in the 1980s are most likely to use the word 'love '
Experts from hosting firm WP engine analysed 10 million passwords . Like previous research , they revealed the top 50 most used passwords . They also listed top colours , superheroes and verbs used in login details . From this they noticed many use the same seemingly complex passwords . And this is because these words follow set patterns on a keyboard . Patterns are known as 'keyboard walks ' and make passwords easy to hack . Study also found women have better passwords , on average , than men . And people born in the 1980s are most likely to use the word 'love '