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Subject: Re: RockYou2024 leak of 10 billion passwords - the biggest password
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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:17:03 -0400
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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...