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How does a hacker crack encrypted password databases?

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  Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
• 12
• 4 min read

We recently published a post about the inherent dangers of passwords and how they are increasingly vulnerable thanks to user negligence. With so much data being safeguarded by elemental passwords, the need for a refined security layer is imperative. However, a common question we received was about how attackers actually store and share compromised passwords […]