AI tech can crack common passwords with stunning speed, researchers find

Fox News correspondent Madeleine Rivera has more on the rise of artificial intelligence as the federal government looks to address concerns and overcome the learning curve. Artificial intelligence tech has the ability to crack any kind of seven-character password in just six minutes, a new study has found. The research, shared by identity theft prevention company Home Security Heroes, said the same was true even if the password contains symbols. The company used a generative AI service called PassGAN to run through 15,680,000 common passwords from the Rockyou dataset to determine how long it would take to crack them. Rockyou is a data group used to train intelligent systems on password analysis.