Nearly 2.7 billion records containing up to 800 million unique email addresses and more than 21 million unique passwords have been compromised and published online.
The massive data leak, dubbed Collection #1, is made up of individual breaches from “literally thousands of different sources”, according to security researcher Troy Hunt, who announced his findings in a blog post.
The data being shared on hacking forums comprises is email addresses and passwords totalling 2.69 billion rows of data, with a total of 1.16 billion unique combinations of email addresses and passwords.
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Source: ITPro