1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
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Re: 1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
#2Title is exaggerating; this "single database" is actually an aggregate of many previous breach dumps.
Re: 1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
#3Title is exaggerating; this "single database" is actually an aggregate of many previous breach dumps.
Yeah, this is just stupid. 1.4B rows isn't even a decent amount of data as far as the publicly available DBs go.
Silly marketing fluff from yet another "threat intelligence" snake oil outfit.
Re: 1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
#4Title is exaggerating; this "single database" is actually an aggregate of many previous breach dumps.
Which makes the aggregate a single database.
Re: 1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
#5How comes that 'homelesspa' ranks 13 on the most used passwords? I mean, I understand why '123456' and 'password' are in the list, but a seemingly random combination of words such as 'homelesspa'?
I did found this: https://twitter.com/clinton_ngn/status/736247662866006018 But no real explanation
Re: 1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
#6How comes that 'homelesspa' ranks 13 on the most used passwords? I mean, I understand why '123456' and 'password' are in the list, but a seemingly random combination of words such as 'homelesspa'? I did found this: https://twitter.com/clinton_ngn/status/736247662866006018 But no real explanation
Most likely a bot that registered a ton of users with the same password.
Re: 1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
#7anybody with links to the db?
Re: 1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
#8Where can I download this dump so I can find out if any of my accounts are in it?
Re: 1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
#9Where can I download this dump so I can find out if any of my accounts are in it?
Re: 1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
#10Where can I download this dump so I can find out if any of my accounts are in it?
Not a link to the DB but a great relevant service: https://haveibeenpwned.com/