Canadian cybersecurity researchers are voicing concern and urging people to be vigilant after reports that a staggering 26 billion records have been exposed in a “supermassive leak.”
According to the organizations CyberNews and Security Discovery, data from popular platforms including LinkedIn, X (formerly known as Twitter), Dropbox and Adobe has been exposed in what the research team refers to as the “mother of all breaches.”
data is from many breaches from the past like this twitter breach that happened in 2021
"A massive Twitter data breach last year, exposing more than five million phone numbers and email addresses, was worse than initially reported"
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data from most breaches end up on darkweb for sale - researchers then get a hold of it - and bad actors
someone has obviously gotten hold of a load of data from a load of breaches and put them together
@Armchaircouch @disk4mat
It actually isn't as bad as it sounds - The leak is in fact a compiled collection of data from thousands of previous breaches, and doesn't appear to contain any new information.
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