Password

Often, a password needs to be provided along with a username or id to provide the credentials to gain access to information or resources.

A password that is often used should be easily typable, especially if entered on mobile devices.

Unencrypted passwords are often found on (badly secured) network drives. Apparently, users love to store their passwords in Excel, Word, text etc. files.

Thus, a first approach when trying to find passwords is using tools like grep, findstr.exe etc.