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When Accounts are "Hacked" Due to Poor Passwords, Victims Must Share the Blame

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams.

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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

One of my contacts pointed me to a popular hacking forum where the data was being socialised, complete with the following image: As you can see at the top left of the image, the root folder is called "Collection #1" hence the name I've given this breach. The collection totalled over 12,000 separate files and more than 87GB of data.

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When Accounts are "Hacked" Due to Poor Passwords, Victims Must Share the Blame

The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

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