I find this super odd, even with fans being obsessed about their favorite athletes or professional franchises.
In a report from the Wall Street Journal that caught me totally by surprise, sports fans who want to protect their most personal information on the Internet, revert back to their favorite sports icon for a password.
In an list of the top 25 sports-related passwords, “jordan” and “jordan23” both made the top 10, according to SplashData, which compiled more than 3.3 million leaked passwords in North American and Western Europe during 2014.
“You’re starting to see more sites requiring passwords that require letters and numbers,” said SplashData chief executive Morgan Slain. “So it’s pretty remarkable that no similar passwords of player/number combos show up high on the list. The only other name/number password in the top 300 was “Bond007.”
“Baseball” and “football” cracked the overall top 10, while “hockey” and “soccer” were in the top 50.
Among other sports teams, “yankees” was used most often, followed by “eagles” and “steelers.” “Arsenal,” was the only European soccer team to make the list.