# rockyou2021.txt wordlist

What is the RockYou2021?

The RockYou2021.txt is a collection of breached passwords and credentials, potential passwords, and wordlists. The list was posted on a famous hacker forum in early June 2021 and immediately caused a security scare online. Although reported upon in the CyberNews community as a password leak, RockYou2021 is actually a breach of 8.4 billion unique entries, many of which aren’t related to passwords.

Dubbed RockYou2021 as a nod to the RockYou2009 data leak, this breach doesn’t reveal newly compromised passwords. Our security experts have accessed the list and analyzed it, noting that a lot of the data entries are duplicates of earlier leaks. The full list contains:

    The Combination of Many Breaches (COMB) list: A list of 3.2 billion previously leaked password entries.
    A collection of other known password breaches and leaks as well as words from Wikipedia (in the CrackStation Dictionary and Wikipedia Wordlist).
    Weakpass wordlists and random user passwords.
    SecLists/Passwords, an amalgamation containing captured passwords and commonly used words, to aid hackers in password cracking attacks.
    A probable wordlist containing passwords that are known to be used based on password trend research.

So, it seems that a lot of this leaked data had already been exposed in previous breaches. This means that the commotion caused by various online outlets is uncalled for; individuals have had access to the leaked credentials and entries in RockYou2021 for a long time.