I think this is the original article I read. A year old so things are probably improved or gotten worse depending on point of view. Still a good read, kinda long.
Why passwords have never been weaker?and crackers have never been stronger
This $12,000 computer, dubbed Project Erebus v2.5 by creator d3ad0ne, contains eight AMD Radeon HD7970 GPU cards. Running version 0.10 of oclHashcat-lite, it requires just 12 hours to brute force the entire keyspace for any eight-character password containing upper- or lower-case letters, digits or symbols. It aided Team Hashcat in winning this year's Crack Me If You Can contest.
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