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      Alex Sage last edited by

      This is why I always use 2 Factor.

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      • coliver
        coliver last edited by

        9% of Gmail , 12% of Hotmail, and 15% of Yahoo email addresses were compromised. That's a big number for an operation like this.

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          JaredBusch @coliver last edited by

          @coliver said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

          9% of Gmail , 12% of Hotmail, and 15% of Yahoo email addresses were compromised. That's a big number for an operation like this.

          Waiting for someone to get all the data and post a lookup.

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          • coliver
            coliver @JaredBusch last edited by

            @JaredBusch said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

            @coliver said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

            9% of Gmail , 12% of Hotmail, and 15% of Yahoo email addresses were compromised. That's a big number for an operation like this.

            Waiting for someone to get all the data and post a lookup.

            I'm surprised Holden didn't do that already. It would have made sense prior to the breach being public.

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            • coliver
              coliver last edited by coliver

              This isn't as bad as people are making it out to be. From the Holden Security release.

              For the final step – comparing these unique credentials from this enormous batch to the records that we already have seen before. And, it’s a letdown. Only 0.45% is new, meaning that only 1 out of 200 credentials are ones we have never seen before. Is it disappointing? Of course, but more importantly, we know that most of the stolen data has already been identified and many companies and individuals are already secured.

              It looks like this is just for the letter A. There are 272 Million unique and never before seen credential pairs. Sorry reading comprehension got the better of me.

              http://holdsecurity.com/news/the_collector_breach/

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              • Dashrender
                Dashrender last edited by

                is there a search engine to see who is in the list?

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                • JaredBusch
                  JaredBusch @Dashrender last edited by

                  @Dashrender not that I know of

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                  • MattSpeller
                    MattSpeller @Alex Sage last edited by

                    @aaronstuder said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

                    This is why I always use 2 Factor.

                    2FA is also my solution of choice for this garbage.

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                      henriette last edited by

                      This data breaches problem are increased day by day and becoming concern for the whole world.

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                        Jason Banned @henriette last edited by

                        @henriette said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

                        This data breaches problem are increased day by day and becoming concern for the whole world.

                        Actually I don't think it concerns most people. Most people could care less.

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                          scottalanmiller @Jason last edited by

                          @Jason said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

                          @henriette said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

                          This data breaches problem are increased day by day and becoming concern for the whole world.

                          Actually I don't think it concerns most people. Most people could care less.

                          I agree. Does anyone know someone actually affected by these? I know of no one. Someone, somewhere is, but it is super minor. I have a new CC coming, just in case, from some breach I don't know about. Whoopty doo.

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                          • nadnerB
                            nadnerB last edited by

                            I'm trying to find the source of an article I read yesterday(?) that claimed that this was bogus and just a bunch of old and random data cobbled together.

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                              coliver @nadnerB last edited by

                              @nadnerB said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

                              I'm trying to find the source of an article I read yesterday(?) that claimed that this was bogus and just a bunch of old and random data cobbled together.

                              That was directly from the security company. From what I read less than 2% of the data was unique.

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                              • Reid Cooper
                                Reid Cooper last edited by

                                I do not know anyone who is really concerned about most data breaches. People talk about it, but no one is concerned.

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                                • Dashrender
                                  Dashrender last edited by

                                  Half of my doctors have had fake tax returns files in several states on the East coast - they are definitely concerned.

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                                  • nadnerB
                                    nadnerB last edited by

                                    I think that this was where I read it: https://www.grahamcluley.com/2016/05/hacker-selling-272-million-webmail-passwords-1-dont-panic/

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                                    • scottalanmiller
                                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender last edited by

                                      @Dashrender said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

                                      Half of my doctors have had fake tax returns files in several states on the East coast - they are definitely concerned.

                                      From what breach did that happen?

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                                        travisdh1 @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

                                        @Dashrender said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

                                        Half of my doctors have had fake tax returns files in several states on the East coast - they are definitely concerned.

                                        From what breach did that happen?

                                        We're talking information available through HIPPA regulated places..... where could you NOT get it if you wanted?

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                                          scottalanmiller @travisdh1 last edited by

                                          @travisdh1 said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

                                          @Dashrender said in Big data breaches found at major email services:

                                          Half of my doctors have had fake tax returns files in several states on the East coast - they are definitely concerned.

                                          From what breach did that happen?

                                          We're talking information available through HIPPA regulated places..... where could you NOT get it if you wanted?

                                          I didn't want to say it, but I was guessing that they had used the fax machines.

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                                          • MattSpeller
                                            MattSpeller last edited by

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                                            Sorry, this had to be posted somewhere relevant

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