The RockYou2024 leak, revealed by Cybernews researchers, is the largest collection of stolen passwords ever, containing nearly 10 billion unique plaintext passwords. Posted by “ObamaCare” on July 4th, it compiles data from numerous breaches over several years. This leak significantly heightens the risk of credential stuffing attacks, which are commonly used by criminals and hackers to access systems. The dataset could be exploited to target online services, cameras, and industrial hardware, potentially leading to widespread data breaches, financial fraud, and identity theft. Despite its scale, RockYou2024 primarily aggregates previous leaks from around 4,000 databases over two decades.
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Researchers at Cybernews discovered nearly 10 billion passwords on a hacking forum, dubbed the “largest password compilation” ever. The file, named rockyou2024.txt, was posted by a user called ObamaCare and contains 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords. This compilation, a mix of old and new breaches, significantly increases the risk of credential stuffing attacks, where hackers use passwords from one breach to access unrelated services. Reusing passwords across multiple sites is now riskier than ever.
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