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Nearly 10 billion passwords leaked in what may be biggest dataset of its kind ever

  • Semafor reported the leak of nearly 10 billion passwords on an online hacking forum, making it the largest leak in history.
  • The compilation contained a mix of old and new password breaches, posted online on July 4.
  • This leak is unprecedented in scale and poses a significant cybersecurity threat.
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It is the biggest password leak in history. Say and write 9,948,575,739 passwords the file contains. Now it is important to act correctly.

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A user on a popular hacker forum, under the alias ObamaCare, posted a file containing 9,948,575,739 unique passwords in plain text. This file, called rockyou2024.txt, was leaked on Thursday, July 4th and contains passwords obtained from new data breaches and previous leaks. CyberNews investigators accessed the file and confirmed it is the largest compilation of leaked passwords on the Internet. When compared to their Password Breach Checker, the…

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Forbes broke the news in United States on Friday, July 5, 2024.
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