Collection 1 data breach leaks 773 million records

[Bradley Prior]

Collection 1 data breach leaks 773 million records

Security researcher Troy Hunt – who runs the website Have I Been Pwned? – has published a blog post detailing a massive new data leak.

This data breach, named “Collection 1”, exposes 773 million unique email addresses, making it the single largest data breach ever loaded onto Hunt’s website.

 

[satanboy]

Something weird about the site where you check your email address. I checked email addresses of (retirees) people that left the company >8 years ago and it returns "you've been pwned". I am skeptical.

 

[Praeses]

Something weird about the site where you check your email address. I checked email addresses of (retirees) people that left the company >8 years ago and it returns "you've been pwned". I am skeptical.

Why? It just means that their e-mail addresses were leaked at some point during its existence on other websites where they e.g. subscribed to something - why skeptical?

 

[mister]

Something weird about the site where you check your email address. I checked email addresses of (retirees) people that left the company >8 years ago and it returns "you've been pwned". I am skeptical.

why skeptical? it shows which services they were using that were compromised?

 

[RedViking]

My ancient Yahoo mail has been hit. No surprise there

 

[RedViking]

Something weird about the site where you check your email address. I checked email addresses of (retirees) people that left the company >8 years ago and it returns "you've been pwned". I am skeptical.

You think your problems go away once you retired?

 

[kripstoe]

Yeah, nothing like waking up with an email from HIBP.

 

[sajunky]

Something weird about the site where you check your email address.

Check your Email address on such Website, no matter what reply is, your Email address is collected. .LOL.

ED: fixed a quote formatting

 

[eg2505]

yip got the mail this time, need to get to changing my password.

 

[satanboy]

You think your problems go away once you retired?

100%

 

[D tj]

One of my email addresses:

ViewFines: In May 2018, the South African website for viewing traffic fines online known as ViewFines suffered a data breach. Over 934k records containing 778k unique email addresses were exposed and included names, phone numbers, government issued IDs and passwords stored in plain text.
Compromised data: Email addresses, Government issued IDs, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers

 

[Daruk]

Who else finds it a little disturbing that Troy's site leaks data about services you're subscribed to? Anyone can enter any email address and see what you've subbed to if you've been pwned.