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

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.

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

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?

Those 15-character passwords came in eighth in the company’s list of common lengths for compromised passwords. That’s not to say you should return to the days of short 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.

Here’s how to create tough-to-crack passwords May 1 serves as World Password Day, and after a record amount was lost to fraud last year, Susan Campbell has tips to protect your personal information.

Making a simple yet hard to crack password is actually easy. Make it 15 characters or more. Remember this, length matters more than difficulty. Most people have 8 character passwords.

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.