Superman, Batman or even Spiderman… if you have ever used one of these superheroes in one of your passwords, you must know that you are super poorly protected.

Indeed, the Mozilla Foundation revealed that superheroes were used too much in passwords.

To establish these results, the foundation relied on data collected by the site haveibeenpwned.com, a site which lists security breaches and which allows Internet users to know if their personal data has been compromised.

Superman has been spotted almost 368,397 times in these compromised passwords.

Batman follows him with 226,327 appearances and Spiderman with 160,030 occurrences.

Wolverine, Daredevil, Ironman or Black Panther also appear a large number of times.

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And if you thought using real superhero names was a better idea, you might be disillusioned.

James Howlett (Wolverine), Clark Kent (Superman), Bruce Wayne (Batman) or Peter Parker (Spiderman) are also widely used and therefore represent particularly fragile protection.

“A password is like a house key,” warns Mozilla.

In the online world, the password protects the personal information in your home, so it is important to make sure that it is strong.

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Recommended use of "passphrase"

Using passwords that are too simple makes it easier for cybercriminals to guess them.

In the ranking of the most used passwords in the world, appears the timeless "123456", followed by "123456789", "qwerty" and obviously "password".

If you want to keep your data, it is therefore important to use longer and more complex passwords, including numbers and special characters.

While they are more complex to remember or write, they still ensure the security of your data.

One of the recommended methods for creating complicated passwords is for example the use of "passphrase", such as the phrase: "I do not use superheroes as my password" which becomes by using the first letter of each word: "Jnupdshcmdp".

An infinitely stronger password than "Spiderman".

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