(www.theguardian.com)
Written By Jason
2019-01-17T11:41:24Z
The largest collection of breached data ever seen has been discovered, comprising of more than 770m email addresses and passwords posted to a popular hacking forum in mid-December.
The 87GB data dump was discovered by security researcher Troy Hunt, who runs the Have I Been Pwned breach-notification service. Hunt, who called the upload “Collection #1”, said it is probably “made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources”, rather than representing a single hack of a very large service.
It just never ends. I wonder if it would make sense to remove passwords from 10C altogether and just email people tokens when they’d like to sign in …
Largest collection of breached data ever seen is found