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As hackers know all too well, most people are lazy password-creators. And despite several high-profile data breaches, not much changed in 2014.

The year's most common—and least secure—passwords looked pretty familiar, according to the security services company SplashData's annual list, based on 3.3 million leaked passwords in North America and Europe.

As in 2013, "123456" and "password" held the top two slots, and number-only passwords in general comprised half of the top ten passwords. Patterns like "qwerty," which is the consecutive six keys at the top of the keyboard, remained in the top five.

There were a few new additions in the top 25 most-used passwords: Superheroes such as "batman" and "superman" were popular; "dragon" and "mustang," showed a love of wild beasts, and "baseball" and "football" of sports. Meanwhile, the simpler, more upbeat days of 2013's "princess," "sunshine," and "iloveyou" were over. (The continued popularity of "shadow" and "trustno1″ indicated some aspirations to subterfuge—thwarted, perhaps, by those passwords' ubiquity.)

rank	2013	2014
1	123456	123456
2	password	password
3	12345678	12345
4	qwerty	12345678
5	abc123	qwerty
6	123456789	1234567890
7	111111	1234
8	1234567	baseball
9	iloveyou	dragon
10	adobe123	football
11	123123	1234567
12	admin	monkey
13	1234567890	letmein
14	letmein	abc123
15	photoshop	111111
16	1234	mustang
17	monkey	access
18	shadow	shadow
19	sunshine	master
20	12345	michael
21	password1	superman
22	princess	696969
23	azerty	123123
24	trustno1	batman
25	000000	trustno1

Appearances aside, people actually seem to have taken greater precautions with online protection, said Mark Burnett, an online security expert who worked with SplashData. 2014 saw the "lowest percentage of people using the most common passwords" he explained.

Besides avoiding the common passwords, here are some tips to creating a safer password: Stick to longer, mixed-character passwords (eight or more characters in both capital and lower case letters); stay away from easily guessable personal clues such as pets' names; avoid dictionary words and instead purposefully misspell words.

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