2.20 million e-mail accounts and passwords are leaked again and you know if you exist among them

In mid-January, we told you about a massive leak of nearly 773 million e-mail addresses and more than 20 million user passwords on different websites; this bundle of profuse data was called Collection # 1.

 2.20 million e-mail accounts and passwords are leaked again and you know if you exist among them


Now, ESET has confirmed a new leak of nearly 2,200 million private data - email accounts and passwords.
According to the new reports, the leaked information package is 993.36 gigabytes (GB), a huge amount of information considered leaked in four volumes containing user names, e-mail addresses and passwords, and identified in groups 2, 3, 4, and 5.


 2.20 million e-mail accounts and passwords are leaked again and you know if you exist among them


 All this was put together with the leak of 3,000 million accounts recognized by Yahoo in 2017, as one of the largest data leaks in history.

"It is very important to change passwords at the sites mentioned," said ESET Research Center President Camilo Gutierrez. In addition, since it is very common to use the same credentials for more than one site or service, it is necessary to change the password that has been leaked to all the sites where it is used, because once you are in the hands of a third party you never know how many Sites will try to enter it. "
There are two types of services available to see if you are affected by this infusion:
Have I Been Pwned
Identity Leak Checker
 



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