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The New RockYou2024 Collection has been published! 10 Billion Credentials Compromised

Everyone involved with CTF has used the infamous rockyou.txt wordlist at least once, mainly to perform password cracking activities. The file is a list of 14 million unique passwords originating from the 2009 RockYou hack making a piece of computer security history. The “rockyou lineage” has evolved over the years. Attackers used the original RockYou file as a starting point and continually added passwords from various data breaches. This culminated in RockYou2021, a list containing a staggering 8.4 billion records. These huge wordlists are used for credential stuffing and other brute-force attacks, putting untrained users at risk of unauthorized access, like Levi Strauss experienced this