The problem with today's society is that a single moronic statement can be perpetuated so quickly across the world via the internet that it becomes gospel. Take for example this beauty:

And a popular password-cracking tool available on the Internet was upgraded so it could decrypt up to 55-character passwords - so what protection do we really have?
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She is referring to Hashcat, who decided to add support for cracking passwords up to 55 characters in length in their GPU engine. What was NOT stated, is that

1. This lowers the average speed at which passwords can be cracked via the GPU
2. Just because it now can process passwords up to 55 characters in length does not mean Moore's law has somehow been circumvented. Brute forcing a password 10 characters or longer, or even using a dictionary attack against good phrases will still take millennia on the fastest hardware on the planet. The only difference is now the program will attempt to run for millennia (slower than before) to try and crack something, whereas before it would fail.

That is no real increase in threat to password cracking. A good password will still protect you from pretty much everyone. Crack this one:

Groen 5, satyr LundiPie

Hurry up - if you start Hashcat now it may finish before our sun goes supernova in 5 billion years.