What just happened? One of the largest collections of leaked user login credentials has appeared. Security researcher Troy Hunt has highlighted “Collection #1,” a set of records made up of 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords.

Note that the passwords were PLAINTEXT, which means anyone could easily break into your email, the pool you mine, etc, if you reuse your passwords. PLEASE REMEMBER TO USE GOOD PASSWORD SECURITY. Edit: For now, I am declining to state where they come from, as the site has taken steps to increase their security and remove the ability to access. 5 Million Gmail Addresses, Passwords Leaked (Update). The good news is that even if your Gmail address is on the list, the password may not be your Google password, and may also be too old to. Pasted.co contains the most email address & passwords leaked on data breaches, hence human do not verify these data but it is reliable. So guys fire up your download manager and get ready to download 18 GB and check a lotz of email and passwords.

Hunt, who maintains the ‘Have I been pwned’ website that shows if an email appears in a breach, writes that Collection #1 is made up of 2,692,818,238 rows of email addresses and passwords across 12,000 separate files. The 87GB of data had briefly been accessible on cloud service Mega and is now on “a popular hacking forum.”

That List Of 5 Million Leaked Gmail User Names & Passwords Is Not As Scary As It Seems Not to worry. Yes, nearly 5 million Gmail user names and passwords were posted on a Russian Bitcoin forum Tuesday, but it appears that many, if not most, were either outdated or user name/password combinations used to access other websites. Welcome to your Password Manager. Manage your saved passwords in Android or Chrome. They’re securely stored in your Google Account and available across all your devices. Troy wants this database to be used so that people can search for leaked passwords when registering new accounts or when changing your password to make your accounts secure. Well if you trust his online search engine, you can check whether your email address or old passwords were breached or you can download the two archives which total to. Downloading the Pwned Passwords list. The entire set of passwords is downloadable for free below with each password being represented as either a SHA-1 or an NTLM hash to protect the original value (some passwords contain personally identifiable information) followed by a count of how many times that password had been seen in the source data breaches.

The data is an aggregation of over 2000 breached databases in which the password hashing has been cracked. Its size makes it the second largest breach after the Yahoo incident that affected 3 billion customers.

'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. 'In short, if you're in this breach, one or more passwords you've previously used are floating around for others to see.'

The biggest risk to arise from leaks like these comes from people reusing the same login credentials across multiple sites, thereby allowing hackers to access their accounts. It’s yet another example of why you should use a password manager such as LastPass.

Usb 2.0 camera windows 10. Now emailing 768,253 individuals who subscribed for notifications and another 39,923 who are monitoring domains..

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) 16 January 2019

Hunt has added all the emails from Collection #1 to Have I been Pwned, so you can find out if your address appears on this list or any others. You can even safely search for any of your commonly used passwords to see if they’ve also been compromised.

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Yup It’s true. My Email account and passwords were Hacked !!

The attack on Yahoo voice is one of the Trending topics of the week. It has been reported that a group of hackers calls themselves as “the D33Ds Company” claims to have hacked into the database of Yahoo and stole the email and password list by exploiting an SQL injection vulnerability found on a Yahoo sub-domain. It is assumed that the affected yahoo domain was Yahoo Voice, formerly known as Associated Content. Sadly I had an account in Associated Contents.

The hackers have hacked about 450,000 emails and passwords list from the yahoo service and since many people use same passwords for different websites, there are chances that you may get affected ! It is confirmed that hackers have found the loophole in a Yahoo server and exploited it. The leaked information includes MySQL variables, database tables and a huge list of 453,492 email addresses and passwords in plain text.

“The subdomain and vulnerable parameters have not been posted to avoid further damage,” the hackers says. They also stated that they had done this to show off the lack of security and vulnerabilities in the servers.

Not only just Yahoo accounts, other email accounts including gmail and hotmail accounts have also been hacked. The list is assumed to be lost from the old Associated contents (now Yahoo Voice) website and if you had an account in it, there are chances that it may be compromised !!

One of my Gmail email account have been found in the list and I was notified this when I log onto Facebook, and immediately they made me change my password and the very next day, I got a message from Amazon that my password has been reset.

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Then Afterwards, I got a similar message from yahoo too

Without even thinking I changed my passwords of all major sites. But I had only set simple password for my associated content account and also it is reported that only 5 % of the hacked accounts have the valid passwords (i.e, Passwords that they use in all sites).

Anyway, If you had an account in this service or have any doubts The best practice to do today is to change you password right now.

• Make it a combination of letters, numbers and special characters
• Change it randomly
• Have Different passwords for different sites

I strongly advice you all to check if your mail has been compramised. It’s not a big task. The list of the hacked emails are now available online. Go to the list, and search if your name comes up in it.

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You can get the list of all the hacked emails in here.

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Alternatively there is another list of all passwords too. You can also search if your mail is hacked by the latest yahoo attack by comparing your passwords also.