In recent years, a file known as RockYou2021 appeared on hacking forums and GitHub repositories. This is NOT an official update to the original RockYou list.
You can find it on GitHub. One of the most maintained versions lives inside the SecLists repository: the rockyou wordlist github updated
git clone https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists.git
cd SecLists/Passwords
Look for RockYou-2025.txt or similar naming. The ignis-sec/rockyou-updated repo also provides a direct download: In recent years, a file known as RockYou2021
wget https://github.com/ignis-sec/rockyou-updated/raw/main/rockyou_updated.txt.gz
gunzip rockyou_updated.txt.gz
Security researchers extracted the passwords and compiled them into a text file. This file, rockyou.txt, contains 14,341,564 unique passwords. It represents real human password choices from the late 2000s, making it the gold standard for dictionary attacks. You can find it on GitHub
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