“Given the fact that people reuse passwords across their email, social media, e-commerce, banking and work accounts, hackers can automate account hijacking or account takeover,” Identity intelligence company 4iq said of the situation. The big problem with this leak is that it’s not just a list, but an “interactive database” that allows hackers to search for matches and new breach imports. How bad is this? Very.ĬyberNews says it’s unclear what previously leaked databases were collected in this breach, but the samples it’s been able to access contained emails and passwords for domains from around the world. voter was pilfered from a collection of 252 previous hacks. Nonetheless, COMB contains more than double the unique email and password pairs as the Breach Compilation of 2017, in which 1.4 billion credentials ranging from financial data to the personal information of every U.S. The current breach, dubbed “Compilation of Many Breaches'' (COMB), doesn’t appear to be a new breach rather, as the name suggests, it’s a compilation of multiple breaches. According to CyberNews, 3.27 billion unique pairs of emails and passwords were leaked on a popular hacking forum, aggregating past leaks from Netflix, LinkedIn, and other platforms. Photo (c) Kanawat Thongrod EyeEm - Getty ImagesHacker harvest 2021 has begun.
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