List Of 100,000 Passwords Known To Hackers Released
Roseanne Gennett
The password list was created using breached usernames and passwords collected on Have I Been Pwned, a website by security expert Troy Hunt which allows users to check if their email address appears in major data breaches.
This is a list of data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually. Breaches of large organizations where the number of records is still unknown are also listed. In addition, the various methods used in the breaches are listed, with hacking being the most common.
If your password is on this list of 10,000 most common passwords, you need a new password. A hacker can use or generate files like this, which may readily be compiled from breaches of sites such as Ashley Madison. Usually passwords are not tried one-by-one against a system's secure server online; instead a hacker might manage to gain access to a shadowed password file protected by a one-way encryption algorithm, then test each entry in a file like this to see whether its encrypted form matches what the server has on record. The passwords may then be tried against any account online that can be linked to the first, to test for passwords reused on other sites.
This particular list originates from the OWASP SecLists Project ([1]) and is copied from its content on GitHub ([2]) to link it more conveniently from Wikipedia. The OWASP project publishes its SecList software content as CC-by-SA 3.0; this page takes no position on whether the list data is subject to database copyright or public domain. It represents the top 10,000 passwords from a list of 10 million compiled by Mark Burnett; for other specific attribution see the readme file. The passwords were listed in a numerical order, but the blocks of entries and positions of some simpler entries (e.g. "experienced" at 9975 and "doom" at 9983) hint this may not be a sorted list.
Lists of the top 100,000 and 1,000,000 passwords are also available from the OWASP project. They are not duplicated here for space and because Wikipedia:Password strength requirements currently uses the number 10,000, but checking them would not be a terrible idea.
Credential stuffing is an automated hacking technique that utilizes stolen credentials. These credentials are comprised of lists of usernames, email addresses, and passwords. The technique generally leverages automation to submit login requests directed against an application and to capture successful login attempts for future exploitation.
Social media sites regularly encourage people to share the name of their favorite pet or share details from their childhood. Brilliant mechanisms to help build the lists of predictive passwords used in attacks!
2. Discover and Onboard All Passwords: When granting access to a human, machine, application, employee, or vendor, all passwords must first be known--only then can they be onboarded and centrally vaulted.
A lot is known about passwords. Most are short, simple, and pretty easy to crack. But Much less is known about the psychological reasons a person chooses a specific password. Most experts recommend coming up with a strong password to avoid data breach. But why do so many internet users still prefer weak passwords?
Details about any specific accounts affected are still scant, but we do know some broad strokes. TechCrunch found the data may have been first leaked back in August when a bad actor posted on a hacking forum that they'd accessed 300 terabytes of stolen 23andMe user data. At the time, not much was made of the supposed breach, but then in early October a bad actor posted a data sample on a different forum claiming that the full set of data contained 1 million data points about people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. In a statement to The Washington Post a 23andMe representative noted that this "would include people with even 1% Jewish ancestry." Soon after, another post claimed they had data on 100,000 Chinese users. Then, on October 18, yet another dataset showed up on the same forum that included four million users, with the poster claiming it included data from "the wealthiest people living in the U.S. and Western Europe on this list."
Yahoo disclosed that a breach in August 2013 by a group of hackers had compromised 1 billion accounts. In this instance, security questions and answers were also compromised, increasing the risk of identity theft. The breach was first reported by Yahoo while in negotiations to sell itself to Verizon, on December 14, 2016. Yahoo forced all affected users to change passwords and to reenter any unencrypted security questions and answers to re-encrypt them.
In October 2016, hackers collected 20 years of data on six databases that included names, email addresses and passwords for The AdultFriendFinder Network. The FriendFinder Network includes websites like Adult Friend Finder, Penthouse.com, Cams.com, iCams.com, and Stripshow.com.
In February 2018, the diet and exercise app MyFitnessPal (owned by Under Armour) suffered a data breach, exposing 144 million unique email addresses, IP addresses and login credentials such as usernames and passwords stored as SHA-1 and bcrypt hashes (the former for earlier accounts, the latter for newer accounts). In 2019, this sensitive data appeared listed for sale on a dark web marketplace and began circulating more broadly, so it was identified and provided to data security website Have I Been Pwned.
On Friday, November 18, 2016, MSU released a statement regarding a data breach. MSU has confirmed that 449 records of individuals were accessed by an unauthorized user and these records contained name and Social Security numbers. The particular database in question contained a total of approximately 400,000 records. MSU is taking every precaution possible and offering ID protection services to all 400,000 people. The database in question did not include passwords, financial, academic, contact, or health information.
Sony breach: Sony Interactive Entertainment has joined the list of more than 2,300 companies impacted by the MOVEit hacks. The company says the hackers stole data on current and former employees and their families. The breach took place in late May, according to a letter Sony filed with US authorities. Almost 7,000 people are impacted.
PyPI crypto hacker: A threat actor has stolen more than $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency from Python developers this year. The attacker used hundreds of malicious Python libraries uploaded to the official PyPI portal. The libraries contained a Windows infostealer that collected passwords and other valuable data from infected developer machines. Security firm Checkmarx says the campaign began in April this year, and its sophistication grew each month with more layers of obfuscation and encryption.
CNN reported that its journalists were able to find the licence plates on the dark web, despite CBP's statement that "none of the image data has been identified on the Dark Web or internet". It has also been reported that around 100,000 photographs of travellers have been leaked, but CNN was not able to verify this.
Cybersecurity giant Symantec reportedly downplayed enquires from the Guardian as to whether they experienced a data breach in February of this year. The breach allegedly allowed hackers to access passwords and a list of clients that includes Australian government agencies.
Amazon's lawyers, according to the documents, asked a London judge to approve their search of account statements held by Barclays and Prepay, who are not suspected to be involved. The details of the fraud have not been disclosed, but it is believed the hackers were able to access the accounts of Amazon sellers, some of whom received business loans from Amazon. Once accessed, the hackers edited account details and replaced them with their own. Amazon has confirmed that it issued $1 billion in loans to merchants in 2018; it is not known how much the hackers were able to syphon away during those six months.
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