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New ‘collection’ data dump contains 2.2bn usernames and passwords

COLLECTION #2-5 IS ALMOST THREE TIMES LARGER THAN COLLECTION #1.
Earlier this month, Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt brought attention to the largest ever online data dump, containing 12,000 separate files and over 87GB of data holding 773m unique email addresses and 22m unique passwords. Hunt referred to the wealth of personal data he found on MEGA as Collection #1 and now Collection #2-5 has appeared online containing 2.2bn unique usernames and passwords along with 845GB of data and over 25bn records. Much of the stolen information contained in Collection #2-5 is from previous data breaches that affected Yahoo, LinkedIn and Dropbox, but these details could be utilised by hackers to launch credential stuffing attacks and attack users’ other accounts that use the same details. At the time of writing, Have I Been Pwned had not yet added these…
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