“RockYou2021”: 100GB of stolen passwords

You read it right.: 100GB of text. The equivalent of carrying books 100 Vans. A user has posted on a popular hacking forum the largest collection of leaked passwords in history. This collection appears to be a set of passwords obtained from other breaches and security breaches. The author states that he has 82.000 millions of passwords. That's nothing.

After knowing this file, the resivsta CyberNews has carried out its analysis and has revealed that it really includes 8.500 millions of unique entries. All passwords contain between 6 and 20 characters, all of them available in a very accessible 100GB .txt file.

The name of the leak, RockYou2021, is a clear reference to RockYou, The platform that was violated in 2009 and from which they were extracted 32 millions of passwords, also in .txt format. This time, in 2021, The file is 262 times bigger and even more imposing than the Compilation of Many Breaches (COMB, Compiling multiple leaks), which was until now the largest file of leaked passwords.

COMB accumulated 3.200 millions of passwords leaked from different security breaches and has served to fatten the list of RockYou2021. In numerical terms, This new file could contain the passwords of the entire global online population almost twice.

A detail to keep in mind is that emails and users associated with these passwords are not included, But that does not mean that we must not downplay it. This password library could now be used to create password dictionaries. In this way, An attack could be made “Spraying Password” (Password spraying), which consists of testing all the passwords in this dictionary, Before trying any possible password.

And stop talking about numbers… Let's see what are the most popular passwords, unfortunately. “123456” and “password” Appear 8,6 and 1,9 millions of times, respectively.

Before you finish, mention that we can check if our passwords are compromised by the link provided by CyberNews:https://cybernews.com/password-leak-check/

To finish, insist on the fact that we must create strong passwords with a lot of variety of characters, so that it is difficult to find out our credentials.

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