Hackers have published nearly 800 million email addresses

Nearly 800 million email addresses and 22 million unique passwords were posted on the network.

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Hackers wrote an online database containing nearly 773 million e-mail addresses and 22 million unique passwords. Troy Hunt Computer Security Expert

was the first to be informed of the existence of a large collection of files on the famous MEGA cloud service (since then, the data was stolen in the service) . over 12,000 individual files and over 87 GB of data Categories of my contacts, I reported to the popular hacker forum, where they were released, "- said Hunt on your page

The expert noted that Data collection started in 2008 with various leaks from thousands of different sources. Most likely, hackers intended to seize the accounts of other people.

Khantel also suggested that publishing stolen data became possible because users typically used the same login credentials and passwords.

This is currently the largest leak of stolen data among all known data.

Previously, Direct had reported that hackers had released data from hundreds of German politicians.

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