# How Hackers Hack Your Accounts And Passwords? 🤔

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**Created:** [August 31, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-hackers-hack-your-accounts-and-passwords/55033 "2019-08-31T23:19:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-hackers-hack-your-accounts-and-passwords/55033/1 "2019-08-31T23:19:45Z")

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> In this video we will share principles of password cracking that are essential to ALL password #cracking techniques, followed by some of the tools and technologies used.

**What is password strength?**

- #password strength is the measure of a password’s efficiency to resist password cracking attacks. The strength of a password is determined by;

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  1. Length: the number of characters the password contains.

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  1. Complexity: does it use a combination of letters, numbers, and symbol?

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  1. Unpredictability: is it something that can be guessed easily by an attacker?

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hx41vc_EfoY/maxresdefault.jpg "Hack Like a Pro: How 🐱‍💻 Hackers Hack Your Accounts And Passwords?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx41vc_EfoY)