Random txt file called passwords

I found a txt file on my computer labeled "passwords.txt" It is a long file of seemingly random and popular terms and a lot of vulgar terms. None of it seems to be personal information, but I definitely did not make this document full of thousands of terms, which to me looks like a list of password guesses or something like that. Does anyone know what this could be or found the same document? I copied a few lines of this text below:

birthday27

nobody1

papasmur

home1

jonass

bunia3

epatb1

embalm

vfvekmrf

apacer

12345656

estreet

weihnachtsbaum

mrwhite

admin12

kristie1

kelebek

yoda69

socken

tima123

bayern1

fktrcfylth

tamiya

99strenght


MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 21, 2020 10:49 AM

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Posted on Jan 26, 2021 3:10 PM

I have discovered the exact same files today- on both my laptop and my desktop. In the hard drive-library-application support-google-chrome-ZxcvbnData-1 and then the male names, female names, surnames, passwords. I tried calling apple who referred me to Google and google 'very helpfully' referred me to a page explaining how to remove cookies, and malware... I removed the who chrome folder and thousand of files seems to have been removed with it. Most I'm sure were necessary for Chrome function but I will not be using chrome again. All files had been downloaded back in November 2020 without my knowledge.

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