16B accounts exposed in one of the largest data breaches in history(tomshardware.com)
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16B accounts exposed in one of the largest data breaches in history
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/16-billion-accounts-exposed-in-one-of-the-largest-data-breaches-in-history-enormous-data-haul-holds-two-accounts-for-every-human-alive
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Not plain-text I hope. Was this extracted directly from providers? Given the fact that people reuse passwords, it should be easy to construct a larger db theoretically. But this number is mind-boggling.
I wanted to ask if it's already available at haveibeenpwned but it only lists 14B records as of today
it lists 15 billion accounts, one account can be linked with many passwords
thats about 2 accounts for every person on the planet already..
my email address comes up in 23 breaches, and it doesn't appear to list that one yet.
So no, I dont think it has been added yet, but it will be interesting to see how much that number goes up when they do.
thats about 2 accounts for every person on the planet already..
my email address comes up in 23 breaches, and it doesn't appear to list that one yet.
So no, I dont think it has been added yet, but it will be interesting to see how much that number goes up when they do.
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Now I'm surprised, often. Accounts with good generated passwords I get warnings about.
Not that that vendor or site ever tells me they were hacked, but it's one of those cases where I can't imagine how else it ended up on a list somewhere ...