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>> yes. the hacking community has grown both in size and sophistication and the techniques they use which again, goes back to why it was so important we solve this problem. >> reporter: microsoft is one of a handful of companies pushing hard to scrap passwords. is onel of companies working hard to scrap pass words, the most vulnerable aspect of everyday cyber life. >> people trying to guess sophisticated computers are very easy to crack. >> reporter: in 2016, the most popular pattern found among data breachers was 123456. what's more, what are of tech users write their pass words down on paper...

Victims a day. tech giant microsoft keeps track of cyber crime at its own internal lab and they noticed something alarming. >> 81% of the data thaft we saw was related to user name passward and so that gives you a pretty good idea of the magnitude of the problem. >> reporter: brett is their chief informational security officer. did you get any bad guys? can you go into specifics? >> yes. the hacking community has grown in size and sophistication in the techniques they use. which again goes back to why it was so important we solve this problem. >> reporter: microsoft is one of a handful of comp...

All across the world, one million victims a day. >> there are a lot of attacks. >> yeah, there are. >> reporter: outside of seattle, microsoft keeps track of cybercrime at its own internal lab and they have noticed something alarming. >> 81% of the data theft we saw was related to user name password, so that gives you a good idea of the magnitude of the problem. using -- >> reporter: brett is their chief information security officer. did you get any bad guys? without going into specifics? >> yes. the hacking community has grown both in size and sophistication and the techniques they use which ...

It. >> please. >> our computers are under attack. all address the world one million victims a day. >> there are a lot of attacks? >> yeah, there are. >> reporter: outside of seattle, microsoft giant microsoft keeps track of cyber crime at its own internal lab and they've noticed something alarming. >> 81% of what we saw was related to user name pass word. gives you a good idea of the magnitude of the problem. >> chief information security officer. >> did you get any bad guys? >> without going into any specifics. >> yes, the hacking community has grown in size and sophistication they use. why i...

Fascinating about the third most dangerous member of isis, he was a dorky kid who loved computers and he loved to hang out in these weird forums. i've been going to a cyber security conference called defcon for years. people that love the hacking community, they also went to las vegas to defcon, the feds actually went there to try to find out more information on him. so i really wanted to make that connection, how do you go from this loving community and hanging out with hackers. we're at one of the many defcon parties, so we're going to go party with hackers. >> reporter: many of these people...