That’s because this new password leak is comparable in scale to the so-called “ Compilation of Many Breaches,” or COMB, that we wrote about earlier this year. If you’re reading these words, suffice it to say you probably need to change your passwords. That name was apparently chosen, per CyberNews, as a nod to the RockYou data breach from back in 2009, “when threat actors hacked their way into the social app website’s servers and got their hands on more than 32 million user passwords stored in plain text.” This data set presumably combines passwords stolen via previous data breaches and leaks, and it’s been dubbed the “RockYou2020” password leak on that hacker forum. This news comes via the team at CyberNews, which reports that a 100GB text file containing a staggering 8.4 billion password entries was just leaked on a popular hacker forum.

Basically, there’s been another huge data leak, this time exposing several billion passwords in what just might be the biggest dump of passwords online ever.

Shortly before Apple CEO Tim Cook took the virtual stage at the iPhone maker’s Apple Park headquarters campus for WWDC 2021 on Monday - at which the company unveiled a ton of new software updates, including some major new privacy enhancements - an email landed in my inbox underscoring how critical those privacy features are going to be once they roll out with iOS 15.

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