Dashlane is known as a company founded in 2009 and released its first password manager software in 2012; it recently published a global password security report. The password security was calculated based on Password Health Score - an algorithm that considers whether a password was compromised, reused (or similar), or weak. The scale ranges from 0 to 100, with an ideal password score above 90.
This year all the password rankings in the world were between 77 and 69 (within the “Needs Improvement” range. The company didn’t provide a detailed breakdown by country; however still published results in 14 regions of the world:
|
Region name |
Password Health Score (averaged) |
|
Eastern Europe |
76.4 |
|
Northern Europe |
74.3 |
|
Western Europe |
73.4 |
|
Central America |
73.0 |
|
Southern and Eastern Africa |
72.3 |
|
South-Eastern Asia |
72.2 |
|
Eastern Asia |
72.1 |
|
South America |
72.0 |
|
The Middle East and Central Asia |
71.5 |
|
Oceania |
71.4 |
|
Southern Europe |
71.4 |
|
Southern Asia |
71.1 |
|
Northern and Western Africa |
70.8 |
|
Northern America |
69.1 |
Probably, Northern America received the lowest rating, due to the number of the compromised passwords. According to the company’s information, their number is around 20% for this region. Also, around 51% of the passwords in the world are reused.
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