How long it takes cyber criminals to determine your password?
If you have a password as simple as “password” or “abcdefg”, it would only take a hacker 0.29 milliseconds to crack it according to BetterBuys’ password-cracking times. Even more surprising? The password 123456789 is cracked 431 times during the blink of an eye. Even more complicated passwords are being hacked faster. What used to take hackers three years to crack is now taking under two months.
Hackers first go after the easiest and most common worst passwords, then move on to passwords with the least amount of characters. While a password with seven characters may take only 0.29 milliseconds to crack, one with 12 characters can take up to two centuries. The longer that passwords are, the longer it will take for the hackers to get the right combination.