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  2. Email hacking - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Collection No. 1 - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Follow These Steps if You’ve Been Hacked

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    Change all your passwords – Yes, it may seem like an impossible task, but it is a mandatory one. The main reason for doing this is that if one of your accounts is hacked, there’s no way to ...

  5. Recognize a hacked AOL Mail account

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    Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if they were changed. 4. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and updated. 5. Check to make sure your recovery options are up-to-date. 6. Consider enabling two-step verification to add an extra layer of security to your account.

  6. List of data breaches - Wikipedia

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    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] In January 2024, a data breach dubbed the "mother of all breaches" was uncovered. [ 6 ]

  7. A hacker is reportedly selling the stolen emails and ...

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    The hacker says the credentials were obtained during a LinkedIn data breach in 2012 that saw 6.5 million encrypted passwords posted online.

  8. List of the most common passwords - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Have I Been Pwned? - Wikipedia

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    Users can also sign up to be notified if their email address appears in future dumps. The site has been widely touted as a valuable resource for Internet users wishing to protect their own security and privacy. [3] [4] Have I Been Pwned? was created by security expert Troy Hunt on 4 December 2013.