1.4 billion plain text credentials discovered in a single database

[JerryMungo]

https://medium.com/4iqdelvedeep/1-4...-discovered-in-a-single-database-3131d0a1ae14

A Massive Resource for Cybercriminals Makes it Easy to Access Billions of Credentials.

Now even unsophisticated and newbie hackers can access the largest trove ever of sensitive credentials in an underground community forum. Is the cyber crime epidemic about become an exponentially worse?

While scanning the deep and dark web for stolen, leaked or lost data, 4iQ discovered a single file with a database of 1.4 billion clear text credentials — the largest aggregate database found in the dark web to date.

None of the passwords are encrypted, and what’s scary is the we’ve tested a subset of these passwords and most of the have been verified to be true.

 

[MrGray]

How do we check this for our own credentials?

 

[ToxicBunny]

A source of the dB would be good

 

[Kwerty]

How do we check this for our own credentials?

It's in the article.

 

[JerryMungo]

It's in the article.

Not really. The full list has not been released.