Industry News: Cyber

How To Find Out If Your Email Was One of The 773 Million Exposed In Massive Data Breach

Written by Cybersecurity | Jan 20, 2019 8:46:28 PM

 2019-01-17

Fortune: Security experts have discovered what very well could be one of the largest data breach of all time, a collection of 772,904,991 unique emails and 21,222,975 unique passwords. Called “Collection #1,” the breach was initially reported by Troy Hunt and seemingly comes from many different sources, not a single corporate entity. And it’s an especially dangerous one as he says it creates 1.16 billion “unique combinations of email addresses and passwords”...

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