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10 billion passwords have been leaked on a hacker site What to do if your credit card number or bank account information is compromised If your banking information has been leaked, the FTC suggests:
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The 2014 Russian hacker password theft was an alleged hacking incident resulting in the possible theft of over 1.2 billion internet credentials, including usernames and passwords, with hundreds of millions of corresponding e-mail addresses. [1]
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.
The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. [4] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year.
Change your password If your data has been exposed, the first thing you should do is change your password for the account involved. Use a strong password including letters, numbers and symbols.
[2] [3] As a result of data breaches, it is estimated that in first half of 2018 alone, about 4.5 billion records were exposed. [4] In 2019, a collection of 2.7 billion identity records, consisting of 774 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, was posted on the web for sale. [5]
A new class action lawsuit claims that hackers have gained access to personal information — including Social Security numbers — of “billions of individuals.”