Massive Data Breach of 26 Billion Accounts
One of the largest data breaches to date has been reported today, and there’s a very good chance that it might affect you. That’s because billions of accounts worldwide have been compromised.
The massive leak that was reported by Cybernews involves 26 billion records on many popular sites such as LinkedIn, Snapchat, Venmo, Adobe and X (Twitter). The compromised data includes more than just login credentials, according to experts. Much of it is “sensitive,” making it “valuable for malicious actors,” per Cybernews. While the team identified over 26 billion records, duplicates are also highly likely.
“The dataset is extremely dangerous as threat actors could leverage the aggregated data for a wide range of attacks, including identity theft, sophisticated phishing schemes, targeted cyberattacks, and unauthorized access to personal and sensitive accounts,” researchers said.
Cybernews says the data tree reveals an astoundingly large number of records compiled from previous breaches. The largest number of records, 1.4 billion, comes from Tencent QQ, a Chinese instant messaging app. There are also hundreds of millions of records from Weibo (504M), MySpace (360M), Twitter (281M), Deezer (258M), Linkedin (251M), AdultFriendFinder (220M), Adobe (153M), Canva (143M), VK (101M), Daily Motion (86M), Dropbox (69M), Telegram (41M), and many other companies and organizations.
The leak also includes records of various government organizations in the US, Brazil, Germany, Philippines, Turkey, and other countries.
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