Massive Data Breach Compilation: Nearly 2 Billion Email Addresses and 1.3 Billion Passwords Exposed
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Summary
The article discusses a massive data breach compilation containing nearly 2 billion unique email addresses and 1.3 billion unique passwords, with 625 million passwords being previously unseen. The author clarifies that the headline about '2 Billion Email Addresses' is not hyperbolic but accurate, representing the largest data corpus ever processed by the Have I Been Pwned service. The piece addresses the scale of data breaches and the compilation of compromised credentials from various sources.
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It's rounded up from the more precise number of 1,957,476,021 unique email addresses, but other than that, it's exactly what it sounds like.
Oh - and 1.3 billion unique passwords, 625 million of which we'd never seen before either.
It's the most extensive corpus of data we've ever processed, by a significant margin.
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