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  • Mother of All Breaches Exposes 773 Million Emails, 21 Million Passwords

    01/17/2019 9:08:31 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 52 replies
    Gizmodo ^ | 01/17/2019 | Victoria Song
    “Collection #1" is the largest public data breach by volume, with 772,904,991 unique emails and 21,222,975 unique passwords exposed. ...12,000 separate files and 87GB of data had been uploaded to MEGA, a popular cloud service. The data was then posted to a popular hacking forum and appears to be an amalgamation of over 2,000 databases. The troubling thing is the databases contain “dehashed” passwords, which means the methods used to scramble those passwords into unreadable strings has been cracked, fully exposing the passwords. So what does this mean for the average person? According to Hunt, it means compromised email and...