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That's also assuming they used proper salts and a strong hashing algorithm.
Also MITM and or phishing attacks are not super common but can also depreciate your common password very quickly.
Always layered defense. If it's not 1 thing, it could be another.
Unique passwords are just one facet on a multi-layered security defense.
I think phishing is by far the most common way to get passwords.
I saw a guy at work fall victim to one. Looks like it's from some customer he knows, links to document on Office365 or similar, enter username and password and swearing because it's "lost them".
I went, "What URL is that?"
He looked at his screen for a second. "Fuck."
"How many passwords have you given it?"
"My work ones and my bank ones."
"Better change those then, hadn't you?"
Yep. Once I hit the password recovery link for a website and they emailed me my old password to me in plain text.
Or when they ask for the 2nd, 5th and 8th letters.
Or have a max character length.
Holy shit that's bad. I hope that was more than 5 years ago. They would actually deserve bankruptcy