While I have a screenshot of the original thread here in case it’s edited or removed, I wanted to write these out to make it clear that the majority of this compilation was already 100% free, 100% available, and therefore 100% not a reason to sound any alarms. … and a couple other minor sources, for a total of 8.4 billion records (after cleaning and deduplication). COMB - the Combination of Many Breaches list (3.8 billion records) from earlier this year, another amalgam of known passwords this wasn’t itself a new breach, but made the news anyway.Passwords from Weakpass - mostly wordlists and real passwords.berzerk0’s Probable-Wordlists - known passwords and dictionaries used in Ben’s research in password trends.Daniel Meissler’s SecLists/Passwords - common words, permutations, default credentials, captured passwords from honeypots, and more - many separate entities to assist in password cracking attempts.’s Wikipedia Wordlist - another source of words appearing in Wikipedia.
The CrackStation Dictionary - a compilation of known password leaks and old breaches, words in Wikipedia articles, and some books from Project Gutenberg. The original thread is available here, and allows anyone (researchers, threat actors, oh my!) to download and redistribute this compilation.īut while rockyou2021.txt is a new compilation of many things, none of them are actually new. Rockyou2021.txt is a compilation of dictionaries, breached words, and probable passwords, released by kys234 on RaidForums (a forum often catering to cybercrime). The unfortunate truth is, the consumer security news cycle hasn’t bothered to check their notes before claiming Armageddon - again. “Hackers expose 8.4 billion passwords online - your security is at risk” - Laptop. “This might be the mother of all password leaks, with billions of credentials exposed” - Yahoo. Rockyou2021.txt flew on to the scene in early July 2021 (despite being originally posted in April) with significant news coverage, ranging from “reasonably researched” to “intentionally misleading.” Highlights on the misleading end included: Just need to download rockyou2021.txt? You can skip to the download section here!
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