No sixth sense: '123456' is worst password of 2013

Found on CNet News on Monday, 20 January 2014
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Spend a morning or two with "Sesame Street" and you should have all the skills you need to crack the passwords of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of online accounts worldwide. This according to a new list of the worst passwords of 2013 from security-focused developer SplashData that lists "123456" as the most common and new worst password on the Internet, unseating "password," which topped the previous year's list.

News like this are the reason for enforcing password compliance rules.