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Collection #1: More Than 770M People Pwned In Biggest Data Dump Yet

Posted on January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 By Davey Winder

What is Collection #1 and what data has just been dumped into the hacker forums? TL:DR erm, bloody loads mate…

More than 770 million email addresses and nearly 22 million passwords have been published in popular hacker forums online. That could add up to one heck of a mess for individuals whose accounts get compromised as a result and the businesses where those accounts sit. So what just happened and what is Collection #1?

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