A few seconds? An hour? Several days? Millions of years? This table tells you how long your password can expect to hold up against a brute-force hacking attempt.
Are your passwords strong enough to withstand a brute-force attack? Hive Systems calculated how long it would take a hacker to crack a password based on its complexity. To do this, the study assumes that hackers allocate computing power equal to that of 12 RTX 5090 graphics cards to carry out the operation.
For example, a password composed of 4 characters can be cracked instantly, even with a combination of numbers, uppercase letters, and lowercase letters. The same goes for a password composed of 8 characters, but only numbers: hackers have immediate access to your password.
A strong password to complicate the task of hackers
You can find the breakdown of the time it takes to brute force a password in each situation in the table below. The idea, of course, is to stick to the green boxes. Good news: you can have a strong password with only lowercase letters if it's long. The report does not, however, distinguish between passwords made up of random characters and passwords that use existing words.
It should also be noted that the data reported here is optimistic for victims, since it is an estimate of the maximum time required to break a password. The principle of brute force hacking is to test all possible combinations to eventually arrive at the correct result. The system may very well arrive at the correct password before exhausting all possibilities, which then reduces the time.
Furthermore, hackers will first look for popular terms or combinations. If you use them in your passwords, they will be all the more easily guessed. We reported a few days ago on the worst passwords to use. And remember, in the event of a data leak, it is important not to use the same password for different services.
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