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Massive leak exposes 26 billion records in mother of all breaches | It includes data from Twitter, Dropbox, and LinkedIn (www.techspot.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This, i keep telling people this is just a very sensationalized headline. Some of the companies listed here are definitely from breaches that happened over 5 years ago (ex: myfitnesspal)

[–] QuaternionsRock 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] I read that 60% of the entries have never been seen before. I think the source was HaveIBeenPwned. Am I wrong about that?

Edit: 35% of the email addresses have never been in a known breach

[–] DocMcStuffin 2 points 11 months ago

The Naz.API leak that was given to Troy Hunt is different from this leak. That's also an aggregation, but smaller in size. What Troy has is probably more significant since about 1/3 of that is newly discovered. Right now, no one has published an analysis of the unique accounts in this larger aggregation.