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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 6 11:04:06 2024
    10 billion stolen passwords shared online in record-breaking leak

    Months after the so-called "mother of all breaches" was uncovered in
    January, another record-breaking leak has been posted online.
    According to the Cybernews research team, a password compilation
    containing nearly 10 billion unique plaintext passwords (9,948,575,739
    to be exact) was published on a hacker forum on July 4th.

    https://bgr.com/tech/10-billion-stolen-passwords-shared-online-in-record-breaking-leak/

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Jul 6 21:55:58 2024
    On Sat, 06 Jul 2024 11:04:06 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    10 billion stolen passwords shared online in record-breaking leak

    Months after the so-called "mother of all breaches" was uncovered in
    January, another record-breaking leak has been posted online.
    According to the Cybernews research team, a password compilation
    containing nearly 10 billion unique plaintext passwords (9,948,575,739
    to be exact) was published on a hacker forum on July 4th.

    https://bgr.com/tech/10-billion-stolen-passwords-shared-online-in-record-breaking-leak/

    I hope Password1234 isn't on that list.

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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