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Jacob Fox

Here's how long it would take 12 RTX 5090 GPUs to crack your password… and a reminder that just adding more characters still works

Man in sunglasses staring at a screen full of digits.

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 not exactly pretty, the good news is that unless you're against computing might of a multibillion global AI company, you're probably safe just adding some extra characters to your password.

That's if you weren't already practicing good password security to begin with, which involves essentially just that: having a very long password (a different one for each account/service). Preferably with a combination of numbers, lowercase letters, capital letters, and symbols.

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