People who reuse passwords across multiple sites are at the top of the list of those who should be seriously concerned following the sharing on July 4 of nearly 10 billion unique plaintext passwords on the infamous hacking site BreachForums. The passwords, described as being the “largest password compilation ever,” were first reported July 4 by Cybernews, under the file name “rockyou2024.txt.” The passwords are said to have come from a mix of old and new data breaches.

Source: SiliconANGLE