Click here to see the world’s most common passwords and how long they take to crack Notably absent from this list is any password that includes symbols like hashtags and dashes.

Passwords like “123456,” “Password1,” and “qwerty” aren't just common worldwide, they're ridiculously easy to crack, taking less than a second to unscramble.

More than half of the common passwords examined by online security experts can be cracked in less than a minute with help from AI.

Find out precisely how long it'll take a hacker to crack a password as long - and as complex - as yours, and how you can improve it.

Numeric passwords offer better security — it takes at least 10 months for PassGAN to crack number-only passwords, but only if they have more than 18 characters.

A study has shown the PassGAN tool can crack easy passwords in a matter of seconds.

Cybersecurity company, Hive Systems, has just put out its 2025 Password Table as a continuation of its yearly analysis of how difficult passwords are to crack. The results are in, and while it's ...

It still takes less than a second to crack and was counted 135,424 times. Most of the most common passwords on the list are series of numbers. But how about a series of letters?

Researchers looked into a new AI-powered password-cracking tool called PassGAN to see just how fast it could compromise passwords.

This way, you only have to remember one password. If you decide to continue without a password manager, Colburn says at least do a simple thing to make your passwords more secure.

For instance, a password made of 13 numbers would take the graphics cards 3 years to crack, but add in just one more number and that rises to 28 years, then add another and it rises to 284.