AI can crack most password in less than a minute
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Now might be a good time to update your password (opens in new tab) to something longer and more complex, as experts have found AI systems areable to crack almost all passwords easily.
Cybersecurity researchers from Home Security Heroes recently fed millions of passwords from RockYou into the PassGAN AI platform to see how fast it could crack them and the results were nothing short of stunning.
RockYou was an immensely popular widget for MySpace, and later Facebook, in the early days of social media. However it was hacked in 2009, and 32 million passwords, stored in plaintext, leaked to the dark web. From that dataset, the researchers used 15.6 million and fed them into PassGAN, where the passwords now often used to train AI tools.
