Game news Be careful, your accounts may be in the wild! Billions of passwords have been leaked online and you should probably change yours
We’ll keep it short: change your passwords, especially if you use the same one everywhere.
Change your passwords
Bob Dyachenko, cybersecurity researcher and owner of SecurityDiscovery.com, as well as the Cybernews site, alerted us to a massive data leak from numerous breaches, covering a total of 12 terabytes of information available on the internet. They say the leak, which contains data from sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Weibo, Tencent and other platforms, is the largest ever discovered. Although cybersecurity specialists agree that many of the 26 billion records listed come from old data that has already been published, they insist that there is a very high probability that MOAB (Mother of all breaches) contains previously unpublished information. Still according to the researchers, this data could be used to “a wide range of attacks, including identity theft, phishing, targeted cyberattacks and access to personal and sensitive accounts”.
Hundreds of millions of records reportedly come from Weibo (504 million), MySpace (360 million), Twitter (281 million), Deezer (258 million), Linkedin (251 million), AdultFriendFinder (220 million), Adobe (153 million) , Canva (143 million), VK (101 million), Daily Motion (86 million), Dropbox (69 million), Telegram (41 million), as well as many other companies and organizations. The leak also includes records from various government organizations in the United States, Brazil, Germany, the Philippines, Turkey and other countries. Source: Cybernews
Still there ? Change your passwords!
According to Bob Dyachenko, the impact of these breaches on consumers could be “unprecedented”. “If users use the same passwords for their Netflix account and their Gmail account, attackers can use them to access other, more sensitive accounts” he declares. You will have understood, it may be time to change the passwords of your most important accounts, and also of your Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo accounts, you never know. “Everyone should use strong, hard-to-guess passwords, enable multi-factor authentication on all important accounts, stay alert for phishing attempts, check for duplicate passwords, and immediately implement new protection for accounts that share the same passwords” remind cybersecurity professionals.