The FBI has confirmed that 630 million stolen passwords were found on devices belonging to a single hacker. Here's how to check if yours is one of them.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Jan. 22, 2025: This story, originally published Jan.

In what is being referred to as one of the largest and most significant data leaks to date, July 4 bore witness to the release of a massive data dump containing nearly 10 billion unique passwords. The ...

123456 is, in the password world, about as lazy as it gets. All passwords are certainly not created equal, and some are way more common – and predictable – than others. Cybersecurity experts are ...

As World Password Day is marked, individuals are encouraged to reassess and refresh their passwords across all online accounts. Despite frequent warnings about cybersecurity, remarkably basic ...

Bank accounts, social media profiles, streaming platforms and even smart refrigerators require passwords these days. Keeping track of a laundry list of passwords can ...

NordPass has released its sixth annual study on the 200 most common passwords in the world. Unfortunately, it seems as though the sixth time is still not the charm, with the list still topped by many ...

CompariTech on Thursday released a report detailing the most-used passwords of 2025, which reveals that "123456" is the worst password of the year. More than 7.61 million accounts out of 2 billion ...

There’s a good chance your passwords are part of a new password dump that was recently posted to a hacking forum – and we can assume it’s already in the hands ...

Q. With all the security breaches on debit and credit cards, I’m concerned about keeping my information secure. I’ve read that I shouldn’t use the same password for all my accounts. Now, I have so ...

Password managers such as 1Password and LastPass are great and super important. We maintain a recommended list of Password managers for a reason—a good one makes it easy to use strong, unique ...