How many credentials are exposed in data breaches each year?
Technology hard Data from 2024
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The answer
8,000,000,000 credentials
Roughly 8B.
Billions of credentials are exposed each year, and the Have I Been Pwned database holds over 14 billion compromised accounts in total. The most common leaked password remains "123456", year after year.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Have I Been Pwned aggregate breach data |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | credentials |
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