10 billion stolen passwords shared online in record-breaking leak

Months after the so-called "mother of all breaches" was uncovered in January, another record-breaking leak has been posted online. According to the Cybernews research team, a password compilation containing nearly 10 billion unique plaintext passwords (9,948,575,739 to be exact) was published on a hacker forum on July 4th.

The password compilation file from user ObamaCare is titled rockyou2024.txt -- a reference to RockYou2021, which was previously the largest password compilation on record.