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fromSecuritymagazine
1 week 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
1 week 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
2 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
3 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
7 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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