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773 Million Emails, 21 Million Passwords Leaked in ‘Largest Breach Ever’—Are You Affected?
A database that contained almost 773 million email accounts and more than 21 million unique passwords was recently leaked to an online hacking forum in a breach called “Collection #1” that has been called the “largest breach ever.” Troy Hunt, who runs the hack-security website “Have I Been Pwned” first reported the breach on Jan.17. The website, a breach-notification service, lets people check whether their emails and passwords have been exposed, and from which websites the data was leaked from. Hunt says the Collection #1 breach is the “single largest breach ever” to be reported by the Have I Been Pwned service. Wired.com reported that this is “the largest breach to become public.”
The breach involved 87 gigabytes of data including almost 2.7 billion rows of email addresses and passwords spanning at least 772,904,991 email accounts and 21,222,975 unique passwords. The data is allegedly a collection of more than 2,000 leaked databases. “Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totaling 2,692,818,238 rows,” Hunt wrote. “It’s made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources.”
The date of the breach was reported as Jan. 7. The data was uploaded to the popular cloud service MEGA, which has since been taken down. The data was also being distributed on a popular public hacking forum. “They weren’t even for sale; they were just available for anyone to take,” Wired.com noted. Among the leaked data were passwords that have been “dehashed,” meaning that a security barrier which scrambles or “hashes” a password had been rendered ineffective, thereby making the password plain text and easily usable by a hacker. “What I can say is that my own personal data is in there and it’s accurate; right email address and a password I used many years ago,” Hunt wrote. “In short, if you’re in this breach, one or more passwords you’ve previously used are floating around for others to see.” Hunt said that about 140 million emails and 10 million passwords in the Collection #1 breach are new to the website’s database, which means they had not been compromised in previous data breaches.
Have You Been Compromised?
Because the emails and passwords in Collection #1 had been made public, Hunt was able to upload them to the Have I Been Pwned database. That means you can find out if your emails or passwords have been affected. To do so, head over to the Have I Been Pwned website. Enter your email address to see whether your email has been affected in the Collection #1 breach, as well as previous breaches.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/773-million-emails-21-million-passwords-leaked-in-largest-breach-ever-are-you-affected_2770551.html
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