In a groundbreaking revelation that has left the cybersecurity world in disbelief, the Blue Report 2025, published by Picus Security, confirms that most organizations are still using passwords so simple, you might think you’re living in 1999. These findings have led experts to suggest that hackers are actually more frustrated with the monotony of cracking ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’ than the actual hacking itself.

The report shows that despite decades of awareness campaigns, organizations around the world continue to believe that a good password is one that can be easily remembered by your grandmother, thus leaving valuable corporate and personal data protected by nothing more than a wish and a prayer. This has forced security professionals to conclude that high-tech adversaries are simply using the ‘Forgot Password’ feature as their advanced hacking tool of choice.

In response to these alarming revelations, cybersecurity firms are now training their employees to become therapists, offering sessions to discuss the lonely lives of passwords left unchanged for years. One anonymous source said, ‘Sometimes these passwords just need someone to listen, really hear them out. They want to be complex too.’