🍿🍿DING DONG🍿🍿

Data Leak - 26 BILLION DATA SETS

The mother of all data breaches - a historic data leak reveals 26 billion records

More than 26 billion pieces of personal information have reportedly been leaked from major sites like X, Dropbox and LinkedIn.

Tencent's QQ, a leading Chinese messaging app, was the most affected, with 1.5 billion records leaked.

"The data set is extremely dangerous because threat actors could use the collected data for a variety of attacks, including identity theft, sophisticated phishing schemes, targeted cyberattacks, and unauthorized access to personal and sensitive accounts," the researchers said.

The supermassive MOAB appears to consist not only of newly stolen data, but is most likely the largest compilation of multiple security breaches (COMB).

Although the team identified over 26 billion records, duplicates are very likely. However, the leaked data contains far more information than just login credentials - most of the exposed data is sensitive and therefore valuable to malicious actors.

A quick walk through the data tree reveals a surprisingly large number of records stemming from previous security breaches. The largest number of records, 1.4 billion, comes from Tencent QQ, a Chinese instant messaging app.

However, it is also said to contain hundreds of millions of records from Weibo (504 million), MySpace (360 million), Twitter (281 million), Deezer (258 million), Linkedin (251 million), AdultFriendFinder (220 million), Adobe (153 million), Canva (143 million), VK (101 million), Daily Motion (86 million), Dropbox (69 million), Telegram (41 million) and many other companies and organizations.

The leak also includes records from various government organizations in the US, Brazil, Germany, the Philippines, Turkey and other countries.

According to the team, the impact of the supermassive MOAB on consumers could be unprecedented. Since many people reuse usernames and passwords, malicious actors could unleash a tsunami of credential stuffing attacks.

@ITandTechnologies

🔗Source: CyberNews , Mario Nawfal

https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-of-all-breaches/