More than 8 billion passwords collection have made public in hacker forum

June 10, Kathmandu - More than 8.45 billion passwords collected have been made public by a user in a popular hacker forum. The text file of 10 GB in total has already been made public and includes a new password.

The passwords are 6 to 20 characters long, depending on the person making them public. The number of unique passwords in the file, which has a total of 8 billion 459 million 60 thousand passwords, is low.

It is estimated that he tried to refer to the 2009 Rocky data breach. In 2009, a group of hackers broke the data of various companies and leaked about 32 million passwords in plain text. It is said that these passwords are also included in the leak. Currently, a total of 4.7 billion people in the world are online.