The massive breach, which includes more than 80 million records, is listed as a single 'unverified' data breach, but it is ranked as the 15th biggest breach on Have I Been Pwned.
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Security researcher Troy Hunt has added more than 80 million records from nearly 3,000 new data breaches to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). That is so many records that it is currently ranked as the 15th biggest data breach on Have I Been Pwned. Each record
contained an email address and plaintext password, but the entire list was unfortunately loaded under a single “unverified” data breach.
Are these records actually new breaches? This is where it gets a bit tricky.
Hunt started searching for the massive trove of login credentials recently found by Hacked-DB. The breach notification company
told HackRead that it “discovered 3,000 databases containing 200 million unique user accounts containing email addresses, potential personally identifiable information, potential financial accounts, unique IP addresses, unique account identifiers, and other highly sensitive information linked to organizations and individuals all around the world.”
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