In today's growing digital world, it is very difficult to maintain online security and secure your personal accounts from the online and offline hackers. In the year 2011, over 8 million accounts of Americans were theft by the hackers.
According to a report, if you choose any of the commonly used ten passwords like 123456, abc123, 12345, password, princess, angel, rockyou etc, then your account can be easily hacked by using several online hacking softwares.
The rate of hacking passwords depends on the experience of hacker. A novice hacker will make use of web based application that generates 1000 passwords per second and a professional hacker will use a super computer that can generate 100 trillion of passwords every second.
Usually a password with 6 characters and no symbol can be hacked in 0.0000224 seconds by a professional hacker and it takes around 26 days for the novice hackers to crack the password.