'The findings are sobering': Nearly half of the world's passwords can easily be cracked in just a few minutes
… Cracked in less than a minute Kaspersky research team gathered a dataset of 231 million unique passwords leaked on the dark web between 2023 and 2026, and using a single RTX 5090 GPU, proceeded to see how long it would take a persistent hacker to crack most MD5 hash algorithm passwords. …