Your email and password were probably posted online in the mother of all data leaks
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Hackers recently posted more than 3 billion user credentials online as part of a massive data breach compilation of emails and passwords. Read on for a way to check and see if your email and passwo…
  • sseneca
    4•3 years ago

    So I read more about it from cybernews:

    This does not appear to be a new breach, but rather the largest compilation of multiple breaches. Much like 2017’s Breach Compilation, COMB’s data is organized by alphabetical order in a tree-like structure, and it contains the same scripts for querying emails and passwords.

    So it’s not a new breach, which is what’s implied.

    e: What is the significance of this, then? Is it just clickbait? haveibeenpwned does something similar, but it actually tells you where the data was leaked.