Today Specops Software published an analysis digging into the ALIEN TXTBASEdata-dump, which was recently merged into the HaveIBeenPwned (HIBP) dataset by Troy Hunt.
As with the Rockyou2024 data dump last year, Specops Software researchers found that this dump isn’t quite the mega-leak it was initially hyped as. The ALIEN TXTBASE dump contained a pretty standard distribution of base words, passwords, and lengths – essentially a lot of peoples’ local password stores. There was a non-zero amount of junk, telegram URLs, and other stuff mashed in there too. It’s clear this is someone collecting and processing a lot of stealer logs into one.
However, 20 million of the breached passwords were new to the Specops Breached Password database.
For the full findings, the analysis can be read here: https://specopssoft.com/blog/alien-txtbase-data-dump-analysis/
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ALIEN TXTBASE data-dump analysis: Dangerous or junk?
Today Specops Software published an analysis digging into the ALIEN TXTBASEdata-dump, which was recently merged into the HaveIBeenPwned (HIBP) dataset by Troy Hunt.
As with the Rockyou2024 data dump last year, Specops Software researchers found that this dump isn’t quite the mega-leak it was initially hyped as. The ALIEN TXTBASE dump contained a pretty standard distribution of base words, passwords, and lengths – essentially a lot of peoples’ local password stores. There was a non-zero amount of junk, telegram URLs, and other stuff mashed in there too. It’s clear this is someone collecting and processing a lot of stealer logs into one.
However, 20 million of the breached passwords were new to the Specops Breached Password database.
For the full findings, the analysis can be read here: https://specopssoft.com/blog/alien-txtbase-data-dump-analysis/
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