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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: RockYou2024 leak of 10 billion passwords - the biggest password leak ever Date: 12 Jul 2024 00:21:12 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 50 Message-ID: <lfbb7oFhto3U1@mid.individual.net> References: <v6cjud$1sp0$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <v6pek0$2k746$1@dont-email.me> <z7_jO.37974$SLqf.16597@fx15.iad> X-Trace: individual.net 0tTlehsurhUQoJAmmhMW2Qyer1kRzm+Sa16DFaUKg4xciqS8uH Cancel-Lock: sha1:/T51IxcxMlnK4sLQctxG9MGQT4k= sha256:VJ036cv/r3kOSzI8Wqrsff5gif9rZUwJlF4LY0DMSuA= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1<n@LQ!aZ7vLO_nWbK~@T'XIS0,oAJcU.qLM dk/j8Udo?O"o9B9Jyx+ez2:B<nx(k3EdHnTvB]'eoVaR495,Rv~/vPa[e^JI+^h5Zk*i`Q;ezqDW< ZFs6kmAJWZjOH\8[$$7jm,Ogw3C_%QM'|H6nygNGhhl+@}n30Nz(^vWo@h>Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Bytes: 3254 On 2024-07-11, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote: > On 2024-07-11 16:17, Fishrrman wrote: >> On 7/6/24 7:28 PM, Mickey D wrote: >>> Cybernews researchers discovered what appears to be the largest >>> password compilation with a staggering 9,948,575,739 unique >>> plaintext passwords. The file with the data, titled rockyou2024.txt, >>> was posted on July 4th by forum user ObamaCare. >> >> I'm currently experimenting with Apple's new OS 15 "Sequoia" on an >> external SSD. >> >> One of the new features of this release will be the Apple "Passwords" >> app. >> >> Although (up to this point) I've kept all my passwords in a >> self-created database, I opened Passwords to see what it was like. >> >> It had already compiled a list of passwords that I'd been using on >> the experimental Sequoia SSD. >> >> But one feature that looked welcome was... ... it identified two of >> my passwords that may have recently been "compromised". It looks like >> the Passwords app is reaching into some "resevoir" of >> "known-compromised" passwords, or perhaps even Apple has acquired >> some of these giant purloined password files. >> >> In any case, it lets you know if specific passwords you're using may >> be compromised... > > Good thing. > > I DL'd an earlier RockYou and exported my passwords from 1Password to > a flatfile (.txt). The obtuse 1Password text file format (clearly > "evolved over time" <cough>) took some time to code for. This program > searched all my passwords against the RockYou file. One showed up. A > complex password that some company generously leaked to the world once > upon a time. While I had changed the password on the site I hadn't > flushed the backup of it from 1P and it was in the 1P file... since > abandoned that co. but a copy of that pw is forever in Rockyou > variants. The current version of rockyou2024.txt is here, for anyone interested: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4e3915a8ecf6bc174687533d93975b1ff0bde38a -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR