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720 million unique passwords, hacked and visualized.
The size of each letter indicates the frequency in which this character appears in the list of passwords. Lower-case letters at the top is what we expect to see.
We limited the dataset for our visualizations to 3-letter passwords and up to 31-letter passwords.
The saturation of color represents how frequently a feature appears.
Most sites advise people to create a password containing at least one capital letter.
The heat map of passwords that contain numbers is a near opposite of the previous one showing the positioning of lower case letters.
Add excitement to your password with an ! at the end! Or you can always ca$h in on the possibilities that special characters offer you.
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Veröffentlicht am 23.09.2026
Credits
Art Direction:
Kwame Charles
Design:
Daniela Scharffenberg
Research:
Sebastian Vollnhals, Sabine Devins
Text:
Sabine Devins
Quellen
- 01Andy Greenberg (30.01.2019): *Hackers are passing around a megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records*, WIREDhttps://www.wired.com/story/collection-leak-usernames-passwords-billions/
- 02Ben Blatt (27.03.2014): *The Hardest Puzzles in Wheel of Fortune History*http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/03/wheel_of_fortune_new_baby_buggy_was_emil_de_leon_s_solve_the_greatest_of.html?via=gdpr-consent
- 03Glücksrad, Wikipediahttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gl%C3%BCcksrad_(Spielshow
- 04Password Depothttps://www.password-depot.de/en/know-how/brute-force-attacks.htm
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