article_snippet: In May 2013 a team of hackers managed to crack more than 14,800 supposedly random passwords - from a list of 16,449  - as part of a hacking experiment for a technology website.
article_snippet: The success rate for each hacker ranged from 62% to 90%, and the hacker who cracked 90% of hashed passwords did so in less than an hour using a computer cluster.
article_snippet: The hackers also managed to crack 16-character passwords including 'qeadzcwrsfxv1331'.
article_snippet: Rather than repeatedly entering passwords into a website, The hackers used a list of hashed passwords
article_snippet: The hackers managed to get online.
article_snippet: Jeremi Gosney, the founder and CEO of Stricture Consulting Group, managed to crack the first 10,233 hashes, or 62 per cent of the leaked list, in 16 minutes.
article_snippet: Jeremi Gosney, the founder and CEO of Stricture Consulting Group used a so-called 'brute-force crack' for all passwords that were one to six characters long.
article_snippet: Mr Gosney then used brute-force to crack all passwords up to 16 digits long and managed to brute-force 312 passwords in three minutes and 21 seconds.