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    Over 770 million email addresses shared online in largest data breach in history

    Source: RT
    January 17, 2019 at 10:28
    File photo: © Global Look Press / DPA / Sebastian Gollnow
    File photo: © Global Look Press / DPA / Sebastian Gollnow
    A security researcher has blown the lid off the largest data breach in history as over 770 million emails and 21 million unique passwords have been exposed, eclipsing the Equifax and Yahoo hacks by a significant margin.
    The breach is being dubbed ‘Collection #1’ and contains a raw data set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows from potentially thousands of different sources, according to digital security expert Troy Hunt.

    In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords contained within over 12,000 separate files, constituting a truly staggering 87GB of data (for context, this is raw text, not 4K video).

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