Hackers are getting more sophisticated all the time. Let's look at a few common passwords and the maximum time it would take a hacker to figure out each password using a simple key search attack:
Passwords using just numbers (0123456789):
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Passwords using just numbers (0123456789):
- 2-4 number passwords etc: Less then 1 Second
- 5-6 number passwords: About 10 seconds
- 7 number passwords: 17 Minutes
- 3 letter passwords: Less then 2 Seconds
- 4 letter passwords: Less then 46 Seconds
- 5 letter passwords: 20 Minutes
- 6 letter passwords: 8.5 Hours
- 7 letter passwords: 9 days
- 3 character passwords or less: 4 Seconds or less
- 5 character passwords: 1.5 Hours
- 4 characters: 24.5 Minutes
- 5 characters: 1 Day
- 7 characters: 11 Years
- 123456
- 12345
- pass
- iloveyou
- password
- abc123
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