Typical lengths of corporate user passwords (2013)

Study: 2013 Trustwave Global Security Report
Date: February 22 2013

How long were the cracked passwords in corporate environments (n=2,961,120):
  • 2%
  • 5 characters
  • 5%
  • 6 characters
  • 7%
  • 7 characters
  • 52%
  • 8 characters
  • 17%
  • 9 characters
  • 11%
  • 10 characters
  • 6%
  • 11 characters
  • 3%
  • 12 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 +/- 3 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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