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Millions of popular passwords can be cracked in less than a minute, a troubling report from Kaspersky has claimed. Security experts analysed a database of 193 million passwords shared on the Dark Web to determine whether recent advances in computer processing power would make cracking passwords easier. Spoiler alert —Yes, it has. Hackers attempted to break into passwords 32 million times last year alone, according to data from Kaspersky. That figure is likely to increase as it becomes easier and easier to brute-force passwords with the latest algorithm and hardware. Kaspersky researchers used …