My preferred method of cracking is Hashcat. Source: about 1 year ago

They usually fire it into something like hashcat on a machine with multiple GPUs. Source: about 1 year ago

For this, I downloaded wordlists such as the rockyou wordlist and used tools such as Hashcat and John the ripper. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

Righto, well let's assume the password format you've suggested is correct. The hashcat command to attack it should be:. Source: over 1 year ago

IIRC (and this is knowledge from a few years ago, when I was more involved in things), Hashcat has the ability to do variations. It can also use your GPU instead of just the CPU so that you can make an absurd number of guesses per second. (Like really, really absurd). Source: over 1 year ago

Adding onto this LPT: use https://haveibeenpwned.com/ frequently and sign up for https://monitor.firefox.com/ . Both have helped me train myself on better password security. Source: about 1 year ago

Check if there's any recent breach using your email https://monitor.firefox.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

Enter your email here https://monitor.firefox.com/ to check if there's a known breach. Source: over 1 year ago

You can check it yourself on either FireFox Monitor or Have I Been Pwned to see if your e-mail address appears on the leaked list. Also take caution your phone number may have been leaked. Source: over 1 year ago

Your contact info was probably part of some data breach. See if something comes up with https://haveibeenpwned.com/ or https://monitor.firefox.com/. Source: over 1 year ago