Recently I had to perform an assessment for a Greek company and while there were some lists online I could not accept that the most common greek password is 123456. So I made my own research.

Preparation

I used a breach compilation which consists of around 1.4 billion records with the following format: password,email and used it to find passwords coming from Greek email addresses. The first thing I did was reverse the text so it will be easier to sort. So, a record that normally would look like ThisPassword,test@gmail.com, now it is stored like this: moc.liamg@tset,drowssaPsihT. This makes querying the top level domain (.gr) way easier, since I don’t have to worry about passwords containing .gr in them since it will always be in the beginning.

Out of the 1.4 billion records only 1 million of them were coming from a Greek domain. After stripping the email addresses out, only a list of passwords was left. I wrote a basic python script to count the occurrence of each password and sort it in decrement order and TADAA..

Results

The most common Greek password is 123456. Below is the list with the 100 most common passwords:

     
# Password Occurrence
1 123456 12664
2 123456789 4405
3 12345 1932
4 111111 1816
5 1234567890 1693
6 12345678 1597
7 1234567 1415
8 000000 1143
9 1234 952
10 123456a 930
11 a123456 639
12 121212 549
13 654321 547
14 212121 533
15 666666 524
16 7777777 481
17 qwerty 458
18 123123 455
19 131313 429
20 777777 406
21 original21 394
22 aekara21 393
23 panathinaikos 390
24 12345a 365
25 987654321 365
26 panatha13 365
27 222222 358
28 katerina 357
29 555555 322
30 paokara 306
31 123 299
32 11111 299
33 696969 298
34 999999 286
35 malakas 278
36 123321 278
37 dimitris 275
38 11111111 273
39 olympiakos 273
40 a12345 270
41 123456789a 269
42 1q2w3e4r 265
43 abc123 258
44 panatha 258
45 paokara4 249
46 1111 247
47 kostas 246
48 aekara 243
49 101010 241
50 888888 233
51 444444 228
52 0987654321 226
53 333333 226
54 123qwe 222
55 1111111111 222
56 88888888 217
57 112233 213
58 12341234 208
59 password 207
60 0000000000 200
61 00000 187
62 123123123 179
63 1q2w3e 179
64 pao1908 177
65 0123456789 176
66 1111111 174
67 zxcvbnm 174
68 987654 166
69 00000000 164
70 george 164
71 qwerty1 163
72 12345678910 161
73 a123456789 156
74 232323 156
75 malakas1 154
76 1qaz2wsx 150
77 gate13 150
78 159753 147
79 12121212 146
80 qwertyuiop 146
81 nikolas 140
82 55555 139
83 superman 139
84 0000 138
85 aek1924 137
86 1q2w3e4r5t 137
87 19821982 135
88 19811981 133
89 19781978 133
90 original 132
91 papaki 130
92 123abc 129
93 $HEX 129
94 19791979 129
95 123654 128
96 19851985 128
97 anastasia 126
98 19751975 122
99 dimitra 118
100 19801980 116

You can download the full wordlist for your assessment from my Github Repo: https://github.com/marduc812/GreekPasswords