You see, brute forcing a password is hard. Now, what does this mean? This is where its similarity to the original RockYou comes forward: it is a file dedicated to doing dictionary attacks. A report from cybersecurity website CyberNews states that it contains about 8,5 billion unique passwords (as it contains some repeated entries). It’s an unimaginably huge file, just full of passwords.
RockYou2021 is a text file that contains 100 gigabytes worth of passwords. RockYou2021 is a bit different in content, but its objective is the same. Its name pays homage to a hack that happened in 2009 on the servers of RockYou, a company that then developed social apps, exposing login data of 32 million users, as that data was stored in plain text. One news piece related to those invasions has appeared very recently, dubbed “RockYou2021”, although it is a bit different in content than what we are used to hearing about. With every day that passes, new information about databases being invaded and personal data being stolen comes to the surface and reaches the news, making us once again afraid of what may happen to our data and the accounts we care about. We are in the age of hacking and data breaches, and things aren’t bound to get better any time soon.
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