In what is being referred to as one of the largest and most significant data leaks to date, July 4 bore witness to the release of a massive data dump containing nearly 10 billion unique passwords.
The data breach was released on a leading hacking forum by a threat actor under the pseudonym "ObamaCare," with the list itself being dubbed "RockYou2024" — an updated compilation of passwords that builds upon the "RockYou2021" document containing information to over eight billion accounts.
