{"id":6725,"date":"2021-06-11T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:57:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:57:30","slug":"8-4-billion-passwords-leaked-online-from-old-data-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/8-4-billion-passwords-leaked-online-from-old-data-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"8.4 Billion Passwords Leaked Online From Old Data Breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to CyberNews, a 100GB text file containing passwords was leaked by a user on a popular hacker forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the leaked collection, named RockYou2021, contained 8.4 billion passwords, CyberNews believes the name is a nod to RockYou&#8217;s data breach in 2009, when 32 million passwords were leaked after social game developer RockYou was hit by a cyber attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 32 million passwords leaked in 2009 were stored unencrypted, making it easy for hackers to get hold of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2021 version of RockYou contains so many passwords because it tapped into a host of leaked databases from the past which includes the Compilation of Many Breaches responsible for disclosing more than 3.2 billion unique pairs of emails and passwords in plain text.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/billions-of-passwords-leaked-online-from-past-data-breaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> original story<\/a> in Tech Republic.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CyberNews, a 100GB text file containing passwords was leaked by a user on a popular hacker forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6739,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/6739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}