Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt announced the Collection #1 data breach. The collection of files contains millions of compromised email addresses and passwords. The compromised data supposedly ...

'Collection #1' Breach Is Huge, But Should You Be Worried? The dealer behind the Collection #1 data dump has been circulating six other databases with almost 1TB of data. But opinions vary on whether ...

Mega breaches have been redefined. A massive database containing usernames and passwords belonging to millions of people has been circulating online. The personal information, known as Collection #1, ...

The massive trove of leaked data, which was posted to a hacking forum, also includes 21,222,975 unique passwords. Here's how to see if your data was exposed. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer ...

The threat intel team at Recorded Future, a US-based cyber-security firm, claims to have identified the hacker who assembled and then sold a massive collection of email addresses and passwords known ...

Last month, security researcher Troy Hunt reported on finding "Collection #1" -- a set of 12,000 files containing stolen email and password combinations, uploaded to New Zealand's MEGA cloud hosting ...

I woke up this morning to find an email from the Troy Hunt 'have i been pwned?' account compromise alert site. That email informed me that my email addresses were among the 772,904,991 that had been ...

A huge collection of email addresses and passwords, which can be used in attempts to break into online accounts, has been discovered. The massive haul of data is most likely being used for “credential ...