Nearly 10 Billion Passwords Leaked in Biggest Compilation of All Time
The world’s largest compilation of passwords to be leaked online has been discovered by a research team at Cybernews, containing 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext entries. The credentials were discovered in a file named “rockyou2024.txt” that was posted on a popular hacking forum on July 4, 2024. Many of the so-called RockYou2024 passwords have already been leaked in previous data breaches. This is not the first RockYou data dump either, as the name has been associated with…
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