Nearly 10 billion unique passwords have been leaked on a cybercrime forum, putting online users across the world at risk of account compromise, according to a Cybernews investigation. The researchers discovered the leak of 9.94 million plaintext passwords, described as the largest password compilation of all time, which was posted on a popular hacking forum by a user named ‘ObamaCare’ on July 4.

Source: Infosecurity Magazine – Information Security & IT Security