---
id: 8230
title: "Cracking Stats for Q3 2014"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/cracking-stats-q3-2014/"
published_at: "2014-12-15T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["windows", "ntlm", "password-cracking", "hashcat", "statistics", "lm-hash"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8230"
lang: en
---

# Cracking Stats for Q3 2014

## Summary

NetSPI's Q3 2014 cracking report: of 26,692 collected domain hashes, 82.25% cracked, with eight-character passwords peaking, 348 blank passwords found, and the top mask pattern seen 1,415 times.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2014-12-15T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/cracking-stats-q3-2014/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8230