Nearly 10 billion passwords have been leaked on a file found on a hacking site forum.
During this summer, we figured to hear about a lot of new records being set considering that this is an Olympic year with the Summer Games kicking off on July 26th in France. But a new record has just been set and unfortunately, it is not good news. Nearly 10 billion unique plainword passwords were leaked in a file titled rockyou2024.txt found in a popular hacking forum. The passwords were posted by a forum member with the username ObamaCare.
A report calls this the «largest password compilation» making it a dubious record. The account has previously posted passwords from other data breaches including an employee database from law firm Simmons & Simmons, leads from online casino AskGamblers, and student applications for Rowan College at Burlington County. The latest and record-breaking file was cross-referenced with data from Cybernews’ Leaked Password Checker revealing that these passwords came from a combination of old and new data breaches.
