A hacker has released close to 10 billion passwords in what is being called potentially the largest leak of its kind in history.
The user, known as “ObamaCare,” shared the passwords in a file named “RockYou2024” on an online hacking forum on July 4, as reported by Cybernews. This event raises concerns that other hackers might use the data for cyber attacks. The enormous dataset includes 1.5 billion new plain text passwords gathered from data breaches, adding to a previous compilation posted on the same forum in 2021, which was titled “RockYou2021.”