To make a long story very short, someone discovered a massive email + password combination leak on a public forum. This included passwords from 2008 onward. It’s the largest data breach ever, exposing over 21 million passwords. They’re calling it “Collection #1“, and the breach is 87GB in size.
There are two steps you should take. One, check your passwords you use on this website right here. It’s perfectly safe, and will not steal your password. If it says you should change your password, you should change it. Two, update any insecure passwords that you use anywhere important. You also should not use passwords that are older than 2019 onwards.
To prevent stuff like this in the future, be careful for which websites you sign up for accounts for, use differing passwords for websites, use a password manager, and use 2FA. All or some of those is better than none.
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Published 2019-01-20 03:00:03