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01/17/2019
Nearly 800 Million Email Addresses Exposed in “Collection #1” Data Breach
The State of Security
A data breach known as “Collection #1” exposed approximately 800 million email addresses as well as tens of millions of passwords.
In the beginning of January, multiple people reached out to Australian web security expert Troy Hunt about a sizable collection of files hosted on cloud service MEGA. This collection, which is no longer available on MEGA, consisted of 12,000 separate files containing a total of more than 87 GB of data.
One of the individuals who contacted Hunt informed him that members of a popular hacking forum were spreading the word about the leaked information. Some of them even shared an image of the leak’s root folder, which is named “Collection #1.” Hence the name for this data breach.
In his analysis of the “collection of 2000+ dehashed databases and Combos stored by topic” contained in the root folder, Hunt found 2,692,818,238 rows made up of email addresses and passwords. A little less than half (1,160,253,228) were unique combinations. Digging down even further, Hunt discovered 772,904,991 unique email addresses and 21,222,975 unique passwords.
UPDATE:
Krebs on Security states that this is old information....read here....
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