The statistic shows average length of passwords found among various databases leaked online as of 2017. From an analysis of 320 million hashed passwords, 32 percent of passwords were eight characters long.
Average number of characters of leaked user passwords worldwide as of 2017
According to the source, the data comes from an analysis of "over 319 million plaintext passwords compiled from various non-hashed data breaches, in the form of SHA-1 hashes."
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