1.4 Billion Plain Text Passwords leaked
A new collective database 41 GB Massive data of 1.4 billion usernames ,email and password combinations -properly sorted and arranged into three level directories.
The links to download are floating in the dark web sites from few days back ,it came into light little that to some one posted on Reddit few days ago from where also one can download a copy and can verify its authenticity.
The last updated data in the data base is in end of November ,as per researches it has been a collection of 252 previous data breaches and credential lists.
The scariest part is none of the passwords is true and as per researchers testing the passwords verified to be true.
This collection consists of 385 million new credential pairs .318 million new users and 147 million passwords collected from previous dumps.
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