Re:LastPass: Notice of Recent Security Incident
by sliken on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:23PM
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rockyou2021.txt.7z has 8459060239 passwords
rockyou2021.txt.7z has 835365123 that are 12 characters long
pwned-passwords has 847223402 unique password hashes
pwned-passwords has 5579399834 non-unique passwords hashes
I'm amused that each password was reused on average 6.5 times.
I suspect large fraction of the pwned-passwords hashes could be turned into passwords with the rockyou2021 list.
One of the summaries claimed that 3% of the cracked passwords were 12 characters long (some 1.9M). 48% of the cracked passwords were lower case and numbers.
Often a thread that mentions the compromise/leak also mentions the newest "batch" that includes the new entries. The last one I tracked was RockYou2021.txt, some 100GB, around 10GB compressed. Just use your favorite egrep/perl/python to filter for whatever you want. I checked the a random torrent and found 25 people on it.
I agree on your comments on the distribution, but the average user has shockingly little entropy, and human password entropy doesn't scale with password length. I expect a decent chunk of the passwords are going to be whatever the user's default password was and either repeating or extending it in obvious ways. Even the simplest approach of testing 2 words or 3 words for a total 12-15 characters with the simple 3/E i/one and 7/L replacements would likely. Granted I'm not expecting the same 8 character 69-85% with 12 characters, but I also don't expect much significantly less, and I believe 33M accounts were stolen.
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