Brute force is just one of many methods hackers use to crack passwords, which is why it’s so important to use a different long password for each of your online accounts.

The Data Doctors’ Ken Colburn walks you through common techniques hackers use to crack passwords, and how you can protect yourself.

To determine how long it would take to crack 15,600,000 common passwords via artificial intelligence, Home Security Heroes enlisted an AI tool known as PassGAN.

In fact, more than 2.5 million people this year used “123456” as their password, which took less than one second to crack and was exposed nearly 24 million times.