2019-1-17 10:55 |
We’re just over two weeks into 2019, and one of the biggest data leaks in recent years has surfaced. Today, renowned security researcher Troy Hunt reported a massive leak consisting of 773 million unique email IDs and 21 million unique passwords, which he refers to as Collection #1.
Hunt said that multiple people reached out to him last week and pointed to a constellation of 12,000 files with a total size of 87GB, and nearly 2. 7 billion records, hosted on MEGA. He added that the files have been removed from the hosting platform, but they persist on a popular hacking forum (that he…
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