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

by ericzawo • 1 year ago

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duxup• 1 year ago

It used to be that I wasn't surprised when my password app would tell me an account is compromised.

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 ...

alexey-salmin• 1 year ago

I wanted to ask if it's already available at haveibeenpwned but it only lists 14B records as of today

colecut• 1 year ago

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.

apbytes• 1 year ago

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.

16B accounts exposed in one of the largest data breaches in history

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