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Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords that appeared on the dark web around January 2019. The database contains over 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, resulting in more than 2.7 billion email/password pairs.
Email is a very widely used communication method. If an email account is hacked, it can allow the attacker access to the personal, sensitive or confidential information in the mail storage; as well as allowing them to read new incoming and outgoing email - and to send and receive as the legitimate owner.
Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address. [1] The term applies to email purporting to be from an address which is not actually the sender's; mail sent in reply to that address may bounce or be delivered to an unrelated party whose identity has been faked.
The first data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 [1] and affected all three billion user accounts. [2] [3] Yahoo announced the breach on December 14, 2016. [4] Marissa Mayer, who was CEO of Yahoo at the time of the breach, testified before Congress in 2017 that Yahoo had been unable to determine who perpetrated the 2013 breach. [5]
Accessed through your Google account, Gmail competes with other tech company products within the email service market, such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail and Yahoo Mail. The Google-owned email ...
On Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of net abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox, [1] [2] overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack [3] or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a security breach.
Elderwood infects these less-secure sites with malware that downloads to a computer that accesses the site. After that, the group searches inside the network to which the infected computer is connected, finding and then downloading executives' e-mails and critical documents on company plans, decisions, acquisitions, and product designs. [2]
Due to the widespread use of web bugs in email, simply opening an email can potentially alert the sender that the address to which the email is sent is a valid address. This can also happen when the mail is 'reported' as spam , in some cases: if the email is forwarded for inspection, and opened, the sender will be notified in the same way as if ...