US Edition6 Billion Stolen Passwords: the Myth of the "Strong Enough" Password
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Specops published its annual Breached Password Report 2026, which analyses over 6 billion stolen passwords collected from January to December 2025 by the Threat Intelligence team of Outpost24, the parent company of Specops. The report shows that the theft of access data is no longer an isolated or short-lived event. Instead, stolen passwords are collected on a large scale, [...] The article What six billion malware compromised access data about …
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Global Security Mag OnlineSpecops has published its annual Breaked Password Report 2026, which analyses more than 6 billion stolen passwords collected over a 12-month period, from January to December 2025, by the team of Threat Intelligence of Outpost24, the parent company of Specops. The report highlights that the theft of identifiers is no longer an isolated or ad hoc event. The compromised passwords are now collected on a large scale, aggregated into huge databases an…
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