In the end, a wide variety of passwords were able to be cracked in mere seconds. The company fed PassGAN the data set and then got it to generate passwords in an attempt to correctly guess sample passwords. For its study, Home Security Heroes used the RockYou dataset that arose from the 2009 RockYou data breach to train PassGAN, which is a widely used tool for studies such as these. In this instance, the goal of the model is to generate password guesses based on real-world passwords that the model has been fed.
