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fromSecuritymagazine
3 months ago

149M Credentials Exposed - FaceBook, Instragram, Government and More Included

A publicly accessible 96 GB database exposed over 149 million unique login credentials, including emails, passwords, and government-linked accounts, risking national security.
Information security
fromWIRED
3 months ago

149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database

A publicly exposed database of 149 million account credentials—including 48M Gmail, 17M Facebook, and others—was hosted and then taken down for violating host terms.
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fromInfoWorld
5 months ago

Developers left large cache of credentials exposed on code generation websites

Shareable 'Save' URLs and an exposed /service/getDataFromID API allowed retrieval of sensitive user-submitted data and thousands of secrets.
fromTheregister
6 months ago

EY exposed 4TB SQL backup file to open web, researchers say

"Finding a 4TB SQL backup exposed to the public internet is like finding the master blueprint and the physical keys to a vault, just sitting there," it said. "With a note that says 'free to a good home.' [The lead researcher had] investigated breaches that started with less. Way less. He once traced an entire ransomware incident back to a single web.config file that leaked a connection string. That was 8 kilobytes. This was four terabytes.
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Digital life
fromABC7 Chicago
10 months ago

Billions of login credentials have been leaked online, Cybernews researchers say

Cybernews reports 16 billion leaked credentials give criminals vast access to consumer accounts.
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