A little over 21 million login credentials stolen from Fortune 500 companies have been found in various places on the dark web, many of them already cracked and available in plaintext form.
The information was compiled by crawling multiple resources, like markets in the Tor network, web forums, Pastebin, IRC channels, social networks, and messenger chats.
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21,040,296 is the exact number of credentials belonging to companies ranking in the first 500 that security researchers found on the web.
Most of them were from tech companies, closely followed by organizations in the financial industry. Entities in the healthcare, energy, telecommunications, retail, industrial, transport, aerospace and defense sectors are also on the list.
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