Intro
Experts have found a collection of 26 billion pieces of personal information that was exposed. This is one of the largest data leaks ever discovered. This leak contains data from many previous breaches, comprising a massive 12TB of information. The breached data is indicated to include data from LinkedIn, X, and other platforms. While this breach includes some data from past breaches, it is noteworthy to mention that it also does include new data as well.
Scope
According to Cybernews, a large number of records in this breach come from Tencent QQ at 1.4B records. The leak also contains data from Weibo (504M), MySpace (360M), Twitter (281M), Deezer (258M), LinkedIn (251M), AdultFriendFinder (220M), Adobe (153M), Canva (143M), VK (101M), Daily Motion (86M), Dropbox (69M), Telegram (41M), some government organizations in US, Brazil, Germany, Philippines, Turkey, and many other companies and organizations.
Brand | Records Leaked |
Tencent | 1.5B |
504M | |
MySpace | 360M |
281M | |
Wattpad | 271M |
NetEase | 261M |
Deezer | 258M |
251M | |
AdultFriendFinder | 220M |
Zynga | 217M |
Luxottica | 206M |
Evite | 179M |
Zing | 164M |
Adobe | 153M |
MyFitnessPal | 151M |
Canva | 143M |
142M | |
Badoo | 127M |
VK | 101M |
Youku | 100M |
Source: Cybernews
What can be done?
We highly recommend our clients to stay away from using the same passwords on multiple services. This is where the importance of a secure and robust Password Manager solution is shown.
Check your records online (Please ensure the service you are entering your information is trustworthy) against leaked data.
Maintain a Credit Monitoring service to monitor activities on your personal credit file.
Freeze your credit file on the 3 main credit bureaus (Equifax, Transunion, Experian).
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