If a company or website gets hacked, why does it matter how strong my password is? Isn’t it more important that I don’t re-use a password?

Question

If a site gets hacked, am I at any sort of advantage by having a complicated password, or does it not really matter at that point?

In: Technology

Answer 1

So if you use a common password it’s easier for someone to hack your account for instance if your password is password instead of/8)4&/‘hsujs23 than it will be easier. They can use a rainbow table which takes less computing power and time than a brute force attack. But you are mostly right about using different passwords. Having a password manager can be useful. But password are not a great source of protection for the attack you are describing