Security News > 2019 > February > Blocking compromised passwords from the Collection leak

It all started with Collection #1, a monster breach dubbed as the biggest data dump in history with its 773 million unique email addresses, and 22 million unique passwords. The exposed data was a compilation of previous thefts (Yahoo, Linked, Dropbox), with 140 million email addresses, and 10 million passwords from previously unknown sources. Next came Collection #2-5 with three times as many unique records. The new Collection leak contains 2.2 billion unique usernames, and … More → The post Blocking compromised passwords from the Collection leak appeared first on Help Net Security.

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