A hacker has revealed nearly 10 billion passwords in what is possibly the largest leak of its kind.
The individual, known as “ObamaCare,” shared the passwords in a file named “RockYou2024” on an online hacking forum on July 4, according to Cybernews. This has raised concerns about the potential for other hackers to exploit the data for cyber attacks. The enormous dataset includes 1.5 billion new plain text passwords acquired from earlier data breaches, adding to a previous compilation posted on the same forum in 2021, which was similarly named “RockYou2021.”