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cyberMEDIUM2026-05-07 22:00 UTC

60% of MD5 Password Hashes Are Crackable In Under an Hour

In honor of World Password Day, Kaspersky researchers revisited their study on the crackability of real-world passwords and found that 60% of MD5-hashed passwords could be cracked in under an hour with a single Nvidia RTX 5090, and 48% could be cracked in under a minute. "The bottom line is that pas

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