Hackers Expose 8.4 Billion Passwords Post them Online in Possibly Largest Dump of Passwords Ever

Hackers Expose 8.4 Billion Passwords Post them Online in Possibly Largest Dump of Passwords Ever

• Surprisingly, this is not making many headlines in the mainstream media.

"BGR MSN reported:

...Basically, there’s been another huge data leak, this time exposing several billion passwords in what just might be the biggest dump of passwords online ever.

This news comes via the team at CyberNews, which reports that a 100GB text file containing a staggering 8.4 billion password entries was just leaked on a popular hacker forum. 

This data set presumably combines passwords stolen via previous data breaches and leaks, and it’s been dubbed the “RockYou2020” password leak on that hacker forum...Read all.