IT Specialist Publishes 10 Million User Passwords to Prove a Point
According to Mark Burnett, the cybersecurity industry needs the information provided from data leaks in order to conduct research for improving data security
Data leaks have become unreasonably common: There have been more than 5,000 reported data leaks since 2005. However, most of these leaks come from security breaches that hackers exploit for financial gain. And just to make a point about IT research, independent IT security analyst Mark Burnett, published 10 million usernames and passwords.
Burnett writes:
A carefully-selected set of data provides great insight into user behavior and is valuable for furthering password security. So I built a data set of ten million usernames and passwords that I am releasing to the public domain.
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