Almost 71 million email accounts were exposed
For roughly four months, a gigantic email and password dump was circulating on the dark web, and no one in the cybersecurity community noticed, until now.
Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) has added a new database containing roughly 71 million email addresses to its platform. The service allows users to see if their email addresses were picked up by threat actors at any time in the past and, if so, which service was breached to obtain the information.
While announcing the new addition, HIBP owner Troy Hunt says he dismissed the database earlier because it seemed to be nothing more than old information – repackaged. Upon closer inspection, however, he determined that a third of the email addresses were brand new, making the data dump “statistically significant”.
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