Nutella offers facepalm-worthy password advice
In celebration of World Password Day, Nutella tells people to create horribly insecure passwords.
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Nutella's social media team posted this celebratory tweet for World Password Day yesterday:
Today it's World Password Day: choose a word that's already in your heart. Like "Nutella", for example! #WorldPasswordDay #Nutella pic.twitter.com/Q9EERc6244
— Nutella (@NutellaGlobal) May 3, 2018
Giving the team the benefit of the doubt, it probably was meant to be a joke. But in a world where most people have awful password hygiene, it falls flat. As TNW points out, "Nutella" is among one of the more common password cracks listed on Have I Been Pwned.
Don't take security advice from a food brand is probably good advice.