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1.4 billion passwords

2017-12-30 00:30:57

Under this gist.github link you can find torrent link to 7z package with a lot of passowrds: As a comments we can found few remarks  how to clean and optimize this list.

file statistic

breachcompilation.txt.7z - Size: 4,4 GB (4373756272 bytes)

un pack file

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
7z x breachcompilation.txt.7z

file statistic

breachcompilation.txt.7z - Size: 4,4 GB (4373756272 bytes)
breachcompilation.txt    - Size: 9,6 GB (9640817648 bytes)

count lines

wc -l breachcompilation.txt ==> 1 012 024 699 breachcompilation.txt

sort with the number of cores you have available

LC\_ALL=C sort --parallel=8 -u breachcompilation.txt -o breachcompilation.sorted.txt

remove leading spaces

sed -i -e's/^\\s\*//' breachcompilation.sorted.txt

file statistic

breachcompilation.txt.7z     - Size: 4,4 GB (4373756272 bytes)
breachcompilation.txt        - Size: 9,6 GB (9640817648 bytes)
breachcompilation.sorted.txt - Size: 4,1 GB (4073172683 bytes)

count lines

wc -l breachcompilation.txt        ==> 1 012 024 699 breachcompilation.txt
wc -l breachcompilation.sorted.txt ==>   384 153 427 breachcompilation.sorted.txt