In a recent data breach, what came to be known as the ‘mother of all breaches,’ a whopping 12 terabytes (TB) of data was compromised. This data involved 26 billion records. The records were gathered through sales, breaches, and leaks.
The discovery was made by Bob Dyachenko, a cybersecurity researcher at SecurityDiscovery.com along with the team at Cybernews.com.
As of right now, researchers believe that this is a combination of various breaches and leaks rather than coming from a single source. Some of the data in this collection are duplicates. They have yet to completely rule out the possibility that any new data will be included.
Given the discovery of the data set, credential-stuffing assaults are anticipated to occur shortly. For those unaware, credential stuffing is the practice of malicious actors using a user’s login credentials from one website to try them on another. When a person uses the same password across several websites, these assaults are typically successful.
How to Protect Yourself
One thing that a user can do is check whether they were a part of any leak, not only t
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