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by esnard 221 days ago
5894 means that the password appeared 5894 times in the dataset.

5894 is not the password associated with the hash.

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Yes, it did mean what I thought, then.

But I guess some passwords appear far more often than that in the dataset.

Some passwords are far more commonly used than others; that isn't surprising.