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The 16B credentials leak is not a new data breach
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bleepingcomputer.com
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speckx
10 months ago
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SpikeDad
10 months ago
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Shame on Bleeping to fail to include Apple's own Passwords in the 2FA recommendation. A huge population of Apple users already have the tools right on their device if folks mentioned it.
Sophira
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> To see how many passwords are given away for free, the single 1,261.4 MB file in the image above contained over 64,000 credential pairs.
...what
else
is in there? That's way, way too few for it to make up over a gigabyte of data.
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