With a collection that exceeds its 12-year-old namesake by more than 262 times a leak comparable with Compilation of Many Breaches, it is the biggest breach compilation. The forum user has dubbed the compilation as RockYou2021, presumably in reference to the infamous RockYou data breach which occurred back in 2009 when the threat actors hacked their way into the social application site’s servers and got their hands on more than 32 million user details stored in the form of plain text.
It is also said to contain various usernames and passwords of network routers and switches too. The same user claims that compilation carries around 82 billion combinations, but after running our own tests the actual number turned out to be 10 times lower at 8,000,000,000 unique entries. A forum user has posted a big 100GB TXT file which carries around 8.4 billion entries of passcodes which are assumed to be combined from previous data leaks and breaches, according to the news reports. The largest password collection has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. RockYou2021 Breach: Biggest Data Breach of Passwords Ever
#WHAT IS ROCKYOU PASSWORD LIST ZIP FILE#
The zip file is not useful anymore, therefore you need to extract or unzip by the following commands: #go to: /usr/share/wordlist/ĪLSO CHECK: Latest Google Dorking Commands List (PDF Cheat Sheet). gz extension of the file, this is not a normal file this is a zip file either you can see content from this or use it. Have you noticed that the RockYou file has. To know the location of this use the following command: Let’s give you a direction to find the location all by yourself when you forget it. Trust us when we say this, you cannot remember its location when you forget it. Where is the Rockyou Wordlist located originally? Use crunch and cwel to create a wonderful dictionary but if you are a newbie and just need to test tools or practice the tool then this one is for you. You can make your very own dictionary during a cracking attack. We have eyes on Kali Linux from born of it, using this is too awesome. This is the first version that was launched back in 2013. At first, it was added in the backtrack, and later on, it was added in Kali Linux 1.