Rockyou – Direct

But here’s the kicker: They stored passwords in .

Every few months, a new “mega-breach” drops—9 billion records, 26 billion rows, etc. But if you want to understand why your password hygiene still matters today, you need to look back at a 2009 breach: . rockyou

RockYou was a popular widget developer for social networks (think: “Holiday Greeting” slideshows on MySpace/Facebook). In December 2009, an SQL injection vulnerability exposed 32 million user accounts . But here’s the kicker: They stored passwords in