Massive data dump: Treasure trove for hackers as 3 billion passwords exposed
11 Feb, 2021 06:02 PM
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The hack has exposed a massive amount of passwords. Photo / 123RF
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Over 3 billion password and email combinations have been compiled into one massive data dump, a treasure trove for hackers that experts have described as the mother of all leaks .
The list, which was dubbed COMB (Compilation of Many Breaches), is a collection of data from previous breaches and includes passwords from tech giants such as LinkedIn and Netflix.
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The scale of the hack means it is likely that most internet users have been affected in some way and users who replicate passwords across multiple sites are particularly at risk.
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About 3.27 billion stolen account logins have been posted to the RaidForums English-language cybercrime community in a ‘COMB’ collection.
A “compilation of many breaches” – COMB for short – has been leaked on the cyber-underground, according to researchers. The so-called COMB contains a staggering 3.27 billion unique combinations of cleartext email addresses and passwords.
The trove is an aggregate database that brings together older stolen data from breaches past – including credentials from Netflix, LinkedIn, Exploit and others. COMB – which was given that name by the person who posted it online – was first made public on Feb. 2 by a user dubbed “Singularity0x01,” a researcher told Threatpost.