Largest collection of breached data ever seen is found.

The Guardian ^ | 1/17/2019 | Alex Hern

[Carriage Hill]

The largest collection of breached data in history has been discovered, comprising more than 770m email addresses and passwords posted to a popular hacking forum in mid-December.

The 87GB data dump was discovered by the security researcher Troy Hunt, who runs the Have I Been Pwned breach-notification service. Hunt, who called the upload Collection #1, said it was probably “made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources”, rather than representing a single hack of a very large service.

But the work to piece together previous breaches has resulted in a huge collection. “In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords,” Hunt wrote, and “21,222,975 unique passwords”.

[Carriage Hill]

Store of 770m email addresses and passwords discovered after being put on hacking site,

[Yo-Yo]

Were any of them HRC@clintonemail.com?

[Carriage Hill]

I’d bet $5 all her stuff is there, especially since Podesta’s password was “Password. That’d be an easy one to hack.

[A Cyrenian]

This is a perfect example that shows it doesn't matter how strong your password is.

If companies like this are letting outsiders hack them, then your efforts are useless and worthless.

[paulcissa]

If companies like this are letting outsiders hack them, then your efforts are useless and worthless.

Two type of companies - those those that have been compromised, and those that don't yet know they've been compromised.

[Carriage Hill]

Got that right.
Personally, I think all hackers etc should be ID’d, tracked down and summarily executed. We need a “Star Chamber”.