RockYou2021: Big moments for hackers-members of a popular hacking forum. A forum member posted a huge TXT archive (100 GB) containing 8,4 billion passwords, which are probably older leaks.
According to the forum member who posted the file, all passwords included are 6-20 characters long, with non-ASCII characters and white spaces. The same user also claims that the collection contains 82 billion passwords. However, after testing by others, the actual number turned out to be almost ten times smaller (.459.060.239 unique entries).
The password collection was named "RockYou2021" after the user who posted it on the forum.
This leak appears to be the largest collection of passwords ever released. The 3,2 billion passwords previously leaked, along with passwords from many other databases data, seems to be included in the RockYou2021 collection that has been compiled by a person who has been working on it for years.
Considering the fact that there are only 4,7 billion people online, the number of passwords contained in the ockYou2021 collection potentially includes the passwords of the entire world's online population, twice. For this reason, it is recommended that you immediately change the passwords you use. It's a good idea to choose long passwords, but also a password manager that stores your files locally (not in the cloud). Try her application KeePass.
To check if your password is part of this giant leak, check out the links posted by Troy Hunt.
For folks asking about the 8.4B record “RockYou2021” password list that's in the news today, this is an aggregation of multiple other lists. For example, this password cracking list: https://t.co/D72MJxk051
- Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 8, 2021
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