If you think 2021 was a bad year for the security of internet users, think
again.
again.
Hackers have just leaked the most substantial compilation of stolen passwords to
date, a jaw-dropping 9.9 billion to be exact, all in plain text.
What happened
According to researchers at Cybernews, on July 4, a hacker using the handle
“ObamaCare” shared a file containing 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords on
a hacking forum.
The latest password dump looks like an updated version of the “RockYou2021
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