Appears in the 'darkweb' the biggest password stealing in history

Appears in the 'darkweb' the biggest password stealing in history

The file weighs 41 gigabytes and contained 1,400 million credentials

   To date, the biggest password theft was in 797 million keys, the revelation came in charge of Explot.in. Now, 4iQ has added 252 million more passwords to 1.4 billion credentials in a file of 41 gigabytes

The database was found last December 5 in the darkweb and it is a non-encrypted text document, so the passwords are visible, according to the founder and CTO of 4iQ, Julio Casal, in a published post. on the Medium portal.

   Casal adds that "it is an interactive database", which allows access to more leaks, taking into account that many people use the same password for multiple online services.

The list found by 4iQ also reveals the patterns used by users when choosing the keys to protect their data in the network of networks. A tendency that indicates the scarce complexity of the credentials in Internet.

The 40 most repeated passwords in this list, being the most used '123456', which appears in more than 9.2 million accounts, followed by '123456789', present in more than 3.1 million, and 'qwerty', in more than 1.6 million profiles.

For the representative of 4iQ, this file makes locating passwords "faster and easier than ever", since the search for a certain concept like 'admin' returns several tens of thousands of keys "in a few seconds".