A text file called RockYou2024 was uploaded to the dark web on July 4, exposing over 10 billion unique passwords. It marks the largest password leak in history. A ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Looking back at 2025, it isn’t hard to pick out the biggest ...

The Internet Archive, which is the host of the Wayback Machine, was compromised at unprecedented scales. Threat actors behind the attack reportedly stole 31 million passwords. The crime had left the ...

Gmail users told they have 7 days to respond to password hack attacks. Update, May 3, 2025: This story, originally published May 1, has been updated with a new report regarding the use of passkeys in ...

The hacker claimed to have accessed 32,603,388 accounts complete with plain text passwords. “Don’t lie to your customers, or i will publish everything,” the hacker wrote in an apparent admonition to ...

Life online can differ wildly from the real world—especially when security is involved. It’s not likely someone will break into your home if you lose your house keys. But leaked login info? That puts ...

Passwords are an incredibly important tool in keeping our various personal and professional accounts safe. The problem is, they aren't exactly impossible to crack — and not just because of outside ...

In today’s digital world, your password is your first line of defense. Yet, millions of people still rely on weak, easily ...

If you’ve ever signed up to be a member of the Plex forums, now may be a good time to change your password. Plex yesterday announced that the servers on which its blog and forums are hosted have been ...

Gawker Media said Monday that a hacking group broke into its servers over the weekend, stealing an estimated 1.3 million user names and passwords for more than 200,000 registered users in a brute ...

Myspace may be so 2006, but something that happened three years ago may be coming back to haunt hundreds of millions of users now. That's because the formerly popular social media site was hacked, not ...