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86% of Passwords are Terrible (and Other Statistics)

Troy Hunt

A couple of months ago, I launched version 2 of Pwned Passwords. In other words, once a password has appeared in a data breach and it ends up floating around the web for all sorts of nefarious parties to use, don't let your customers use that password! records, 2,232,284 of the passwords were in plain text.