Re: RockYou2024 leak of 10 billion passwords - the biggest password leak ever

On 2024-07-11, Fishrrman <Fishrrman2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

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I'm currently experimenting with Apple's new OS 15 "Sequoia" on an
external SSD.
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One of the new features of this release will be the Apple "Passwords"
app.
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Although (up to this point) I've kept all my passwords in a
self-created database, I opened Passwords to see what it was like.
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It had already compiled a list of passwords that I'd been using on the
experimental Sequoia SSD.

Those are passwords you entered in Safari presumably, which stored them
in the Keychain. In previous releases Keychain passwords were accessible
either in the System Settings > Passwords pane or in the Keychain app,
depending on the macOS release version.

But one feature that looked welcome was...  ... it identified two of
my passwords that may have recently been "compromised". It looks like
the Passwords app is reaching into some "resevoir" of
"known-compromised" passwords, or perhaps even Apple has acquired some
of these giant purloined password files.
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In any case, it lets you know if specific passwords you're using may
be compromised...

Yes, that's been a Keychain feature for some time now. It even has
buttons that take you to the website in question to change your password
there. It's pretty handy.

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