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DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

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Re: DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

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The company I work for (stytch.com, we provide an authentication API) tracks breached passwords and, depending upon config, will invalidate passwords that have been leaked. Will be interesting to watch our logs over the coming weeks.

This reminds me of [0] where they maintain composite lists of frequently used passwords. Also in the repo is probably my favorite pull request ever [1].

[0] https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists

[1] https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/pull/155

Re: DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

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The data breach announcement is a bit vague on the meaning of “login pairs”. The best practices of breaches databases of the like of https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is to maintain records of login matter (username, email, password etc) in a strongly hashed format. This still enables searching and comparing but not extracting for later use. Why the database here looks like plain text is totally unclear. Or maybe the passwords are hashed here also (which anyway exposes email addresses)?

Re: DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

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The irony is darkbeam positions itself as a digital risk management platform. A based SOC2 security audit would reveal these vulnerabilities.

No. Only if the database was exposed at the time of the audit.

Well, if you have some compliance automation. These things are caught very easily.

Re: DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

.. do you happen to have a service that lets users know if their password was in the breach?

https://haveibeenpwned.com

yeah but do they have this breach yet?

edit: the OP suggests there are some password lists that are known leaked but not in public leak docs. not sure if pwned is only public leaks?

Re: DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

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I suppose it would require a good few domains and or public mail boxes but imagine if one was to create n fake users for each real user. If any of the fake users log-in on their account all users are forced to change their password.

Canary accounts: https://joesecurity.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-is-canary-acco...

Thanks, fascinating stuff. Now if you excuse me, I have swarms of canaries to make.

https://canarytokens.org/generate

Re: DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

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Each time a breach like this happens I want to download the file and check if 1. My emails are in the dataset, and 2. Any of my passwords are in that dataset. I really just want the collection of passwords so that I can use it as a check against any of my current passwords. [EDIT: I know about haveibeenpwned.com; I'm not asking for a service that I send a http request to to determine if a single username exists in th…

If you use any of the better password managers this feature exists and runs automatically. If you don't want to go that route, then you can make use of https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Thank you, I've edited my comment to be more specified

Re: DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

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Each time a breach like this happens I want to download the file and check if 1. My emails are in the dataset, and 2. Any of my passwords are in that dataset. I really just want the collection of passwords so that I can use it as a check against any of my current passwords. [EDIT: I know about haveibeenpwned.com; I'm not asking for a service that I send a http request to to determine if a single username exists in th…

Services already exist that does this. Some password managers will check but the popular service often talked about on here is https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Thank you, I've edited my comment to be more specified

Re: DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. Only if the database was exposed at the time of the audit.

Well, if you have some compliance automation. These things are caught very easily.

The things you're saying make it sound like you are harming clients by misrepresenting security to them.

Security has to start from "when", not "if", precisely because it is fundamentally impossible to guarantee.

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