RICHMOND, Va. – In its most recent research in password security, Hive Systems found that any 8-character password can be cracked in less than an hour through brute force. Further, any password ...

An 8-character password made up of just numbers can be cracked instantly and lowercase letters in 3 weeks. And remember, that’s random lowercase letters, not a word.

In this case, just a single RTX 4090 can crack a complex 8-character password with numbers, lower- and uppercase letters, and symbols, in just 59 minutes.