[Lazamataz]

Which means we likely have our answer.

I just tested out the brute-force method. I was able to attempt 15 manual tries in about 2 minutes. If I had a brute-force password cracker program, this would be child's play, to crack a password.

[9YearLurker]

Haven’t there been some password manager breaches as well?

[miniTAX]

‘I just tested out the brute-force method. I was able to attempt 15 manual tries in about 2 minutes. If I had a brute-force password cracker program, this would be child’s play, to crack a password’

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It never works like this (except in films). Supposing a brute force password script (you can find it in Python everywhere) can try 10 passwords per minute. The number of combinations for a 6 letters pwd is 36^6 (26 letters + 10 numbers) and would require centuries to get the right pwd. And most sites don’t let you try indefinitely by restricting incrementally your access.

FR passwords may (or may not) have been stolen and the most probable way is via emails hacks.

[richardtavor]

Maybe you should change your passwords and strengthen them. Changing passwords every few weeks or months is a good thing.