Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report: 81 percent of breaches involve either stolen or weak passwords. Experts agree that it’s long past time for companies to stop relying on traditional passwords. Some companies have lists of plain-text passwords, while security-conscious enterprises generally keep their password files in hashed form. Hashed files are used to protect passwords for domain controllers, enterprise authentication platforms like LDAP and Active Directory. Hashes scramble passwords in such a way that they can’t be unscrambled again.”]