Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Jan. 18
Threatpost editors break down the top headlines from the week ended Jan. 18. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Jan. 18
Category Archives: Have I been pwned?
Vast data-berg washes up 1.16 billion pwned records
Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) has revealed a huge cache of breached email addresses and passwords, which it has named Collection #1. Continue reading Vast data-berg washes up 1.16 billion pwned records
Why is breach-detection site "Have I Been Pwned" considered safe?
Whether it be due to technology the site is using, or any manual behind-the-scenes work with the data, why does this breach detection site seem to be unquestioningly safe?
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The ‘Biggest EVER’ Collection of Hacked Passwords Is Not That Bad
Someone put together a massive list of 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords. But there’s really no reason to panic. Continue reading The ‘Biggest EVER’ Collection of Hacked Passwords Is Not That Bad
Cyber-Jackpot: 773M Credentials Dumped on the Dark Web
Thousands of individual breaches make up the database, one of the largest troves of stolen credentials ever seen. Continue reading Cyber-Jackpot: 773M Credentials Dumped on the Dark Web
Nearly 773 million email addresses leaked, spelling trouble for people who re-use passwords
The numbers just seem to keep getting bigger. Nearly 773 million email addresses and almost 22 million unique passwords were discovered on the cloud storage service MEGA, researcher Troy Hunt announced in a blog post Thursday. The 87-gigabyte database is spread across 12,000 files and appears to have originated from many different sources dating back to 2008, Hunt said. Some 140 million email addresses and 10 million passwords are new to Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned website, the free service that tracks whether user credentials have been made available in data dumps. Users can enter their email address in the Have I Been Pwned service to check if their information was included. The data, since removed, is known as Collection #1. “What I can say is that my own personal data is in there and it’s accurate; right email address and a password I used many years ago,” Hunt wrote. […]
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Is it safe to give my email address to a service like haveibeenpwned in light of the publication of "Collection #1"?
There is a new big case of stolen login/password data in the news. At the same time, I am reading that there are services that let you check if your own login data is affected, e.g.
Have I Been Pwned.
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The 773 Million Record “Collection #1” Data Breach
Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I’ve called “Collection #1”. Most of them won’t have a tech background or be familiar with the concept of credential stuffing so I’m going to write this post for the masses
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Have I Been Pwned – The Sticker
So today is Have I Been Pwned’s (HIBP’s) 5th birthday. I started this project out of equal parts community service and curiosity and then somehow, over the last 5 years it’s grown into something massive; hundreds of thousands of unique sessions a day, millions of subscribers, working with governments around
Has that website been pwned? Firefox Monitor will tell you
Firefox Monitor, a breach notification website launched by Mozilla in September, can now deliver alerts from inside the Firefox browser. Continue reading Has that website been pwned? Firefox Monitor will tell you