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A few months ago, security researchers at 4iQ uncovered a 41-gigabyte file being sold on the dark web that contained 1. 4 billion username and password combinations from online services such as Netflix, Last.

FM, LinkedIn, MySpace, Zoosk, YouPorn, Minecraft, Runescape, and others. Unfortunately, this is something that happens a lot. The sale of user credentials remains a very lucrative business, earning cybercriminals billions of dollars every year. This is because for a lot of us, the only thing standing between our online accounts and hackers is a username and password. This means as soon as they obtain our credentials from the…

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