Security News > 2021 > April > FBI shares 4 million email addresses used by Emotet with Have I Been Pwned
Millions of email addresses collected by Emotet botnet for malware distribution campaigns have been shared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the agency's effort to clean infected computers.
Individuals and domain owners can now learn if Emotet impacted their accounts by searching the database with email addresses stolen by the malware.
Apart from computer systems, Emotet also compromised a large number of email addresses and used them for its operations.
The FBI now wants to give the owners of these email addresses a quick way to check if they've been affected by Emotet.
For this purpose, the agency and the Dutch National High Technical Crimes Unit shared 4,324,770 email addresses that had been stolen by Emotet with the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service.
The Dutch National Police, which was part of the Emotet takedown operation, has a similar lookup service, where users can check if Emotet compromised their emails.