{"id":630,"date":"2021-06-16T05:55:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T05:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/?p=630"},"modified":"2021-06-16T05:55:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T05:55:37","slug":"rockyou2021-largest-password-compilation-of-all-time-leaked-online-with-8-4-billion-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/rockyou2021-largest-password-compilation-of-all-time-leaked-online-with-8-4-billion-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"RockYou2021: largest password compilation of all time leaked online with 8.4 billion entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What seems to be the largest password collection of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. A forum user posted a massive 100GB TXT file that contains 8.4 billion entries of passwords, which have presumably been combined from previous data leaks and breaches.<\/p>\n<p>According to the post author, all passwords included in the leak are 6-20 characters long, with non-ASCII characters and white spaces removed. The same user also claims that the compilation contains 82 billion passwords. However, after running our own tests, the actual number turned out to be nearly ten times lower \u2013 at 8,459,060,239 unique entries:<\/p>\n<p>The compilation itself has been dubbed \u2018RockYou2021\u2019 by the forum user, presumably in reference to the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/14\/rockyou-hack-security-myspace-facebook-passwords\/?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALpGVJQtKJLEsHpfumwzKF4fDFzvsmf4oUMMg64rINC3lLWZGFG7O93nB4COpwmoLTNVWHghl8VI-aeOViGEbqGZIrYuayVq6HNLsqVA-S5K2Pu6gL8H7ijIqw9hww4gCzQKtIZJNsZ4q2W59dslVCg6fX4H8FPva5A_eO-lqtUm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RockYou data breach<\/a> that occurred in 2009 and rockyou2021.txt filename containing all passwords, when threat actors hacked their way into the social app website\u2019s servers and got their hands on more than 32 million user passwords stored in plain text.<\/p>\n<p>With a collection that exceeds its 12-year-old namesake by more than 262 times, this leak is comparable to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cybernews.com\/news\/largest-compilation-of-emails-and-passwords-leaked-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Compilation of Many Breaches (COMB)<\/a>, the largest data breach compilation ever. Its 3.2 billion leaked passwords, along with passwords from multiple other leaked databases, are included in the RockYou2021 compilation that has been amassed by the person behind this collection over several years.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the fact that only about 4.7 billion people are online, numbers-wise the RockYou2021 compilation potentially includes the passwords of the entire global online population almost two times over. For that reason, users are recommended to immediately check if their passwords were included in the leak.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Cybernews<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybernews.com\/security\/rockyou2021-alltime-largest-password-compilation-leaked\/\">Read the Full Story Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What seems to be the largest password collection of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. 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