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RESEARCHER UNCOVERS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PASSWORD DUMPS IN RECENT HISTORY

arstechnica.com3 min read

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A researcher discovered a password dump containing nearly 71 million unique credentials for various sites circulating on the internet. This password dump is unique from many other multisite dumps because it contains nearly 25 million credentials that have never been leaked before. The credentials were collected by a stealer malware running on compromised machines.