Typical lengths of corporate user passwords (2012)

Study: Trustwave 2012 Global Security Report
Date: February 9 2012

How long were the cracked passwords in corporate environments (n=2,521,248):
  • <1%
  • 5 characters
  • 1%
  • 6 characters
  • 4%
  • 7 characters
  • 57%
  • 8 characters
  • 18%
  • 9 characters
  • 11%
  • 10 characters
  • 5%
  • 11 characters
  • 3%
  • 12 characters
  • 1%
  • 13 characters
  • 1%
  • 14 characters



    PasswordResearch.com Comment:
    These percentages were based on observation of a password length chart that did not allow precise estimates. Expect figures listed above to be inaccurate by up to +/- 2 percentage points. Shorter and longer passwords were also present in the graph, but accounted for a small percent of the overall total.

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