Mark Burnett recently released a cache of 10 million real passwords. For those who do a lot of password cracking and hashing, this is very welcome news. The file is a compilation of various data dumps from website compromises over the course of several years, but the value of a cache of actual passwords, rather than generated wordlists, is very encouraging for this who would seek to break hashes. It is statistically a near certainty that, in a large enough group, you are much more likely to find two people who share the same birthday, than you are you find someone with a specific birthday. If this principle holds true for password usage as well, this dump could be priceless for security researchers.
Magnet Link: Here
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