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Even using this hardware, it would take 388 years to crack a numbers-only password of 18 characters—but it would take 39 years for 17 characters and 4 years for 16 characters, again proving the ...

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An 8-character password made up of just numbers can be cracked instantly and lowercase letters in 3 weeks. And remember, that’s random lowercase letters, not a word.

Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.