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Yes it still happens pretty regularly, but in recent years people have gotten a lot better at using libs, so passwords are salted and hashed with a slow algorit
by freedomben 2y ago
Yes it still happens pretty regularly, but in recent years people have gotten a lot better at using libs, so passwords are salted and hashed with a slow algorithm which substantially increases the difficulty of hashed attacks by makign it computationally expensive to hash every password. These days it's not uncommon for it to take months or years to crack 50% of the passwords in a dump. If your password has sufficient entropy, it may never be cracked. Modern GPUs can parallelize across their numerous cores, but statistically a brute force isn't going to work. Hybrid dictionary attacks are where it's at, and if your password is random (pseudo-random) then a dict attack won't work.
Modern password hashing is very good.