794 Million Emails And Passwords Were Leaked In A "Monster" Data Breach
Source: SAYS
Published on: 2026-10-26 20:10
794 Million Emails And Passwords Were Leaked In A "Monster" Data Breach Cannot stress it enough: change your passwords now. By Alyssa J. Oon | 18 Jan 2019, 05:18 AM Share Share -Enlarge text+ * #email * #tech Cover image via Matt Wildbore/Unsplash (Edited by SAYS) If you throw a stone, you'll probably find someone who has been affected by the massive data breach that just happened Security researcher Troy Hunt - who maintains "Have I Been Pwned" (HIBP) - first reported about the breach yesterday, 17 January, and has since dubbed it as "Collection #1". The latest breach - which other media outlets have reported as a "monster breach" - sees over 772,904,991 unique email addresses and over 21 million unique passwords leaked onto an online forum for hackers. Although some of the data may have been brought over from previous breaches, Hunt said "there's somewhere in the order of 14...
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