BBC Tech has a report that surprised us, where a data breach occurred when criminals accessed the data of thousands of children which was secured with the password ‘Password1’. It seems to have been a test system, but that is no excuse. The BBC Tech article is at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6r7y03e9m3ro.
The ICO has published a blog which you can read at https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2026/10/password1-is-not-an-appropriate-password/.
Surely, we all know better than this, don’t we?