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Password to 773 million. e-mail addresses leaked

security expert warns that a massive leak that contains over 700 million e-mail addresses and their passwords have been discovered. Teknologimagasinet Wired cal

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Password to 773 million. e-mail addresses leaked

security expert warns that a massive leak that contains over 700 million e-mail addresses and their passwords have been discovered. Teknologimagasinet Wired calls it the largest enkeltlekkasjen in the internet's history.

The massive database, known as the "Collection #1", has circulated openly on the web since it was first observed on fildelingstjenesten MEGA last week. The database is 87 gigabytes large, according to Wired.

It is now been removed from MEGA, but circulating still on the forum that is often used by hackers.

106 607 nettpirater: Check how many we found where you live Over 700 million.

the Database contains the entire 773 million e-mail addresses and 21 million passwords. The reason why there are fewer passwords a number of e-mail addresses, is that people generally choose passwords with poor security.

Many people use the same passwords, including "123456", "password" and "123456789" are the most commonly used passwords in the world.

Troy Hunt is among other things behind the site Have In Been Pwned? - a database that can easily tell you if your password has been leaked in the new leak, or previous leaks.

On their own website tells Hunt that 140 million of the leaked e-mail addresses has not occurred in the his database in the past. It means that even if you do not have been affected by a leak before, so you might have been there now.

the Leak may also have affected persons who previously received the e-mail address and his password leaked, and later has changed the password.

New scam: This e-mail from the "Apple" is dangerously similar to the original natural Hit Norwegian samfunnstopper

In October last year, talked about the Newspaper a leak of 1.4 billion passwords, which struck a number of Norwegian samfunnstopper. The collection was published on the website Reddit in December 2017, and the Dagbladet review showed that at least 573 000 Norwegian e-mail accounts were affected.

the Surveys also showed that it was leaked passwords to 166 e-mail addresses associated with the Parliament. In addition, the same information is leaked about the 739 different e-mail addresses from the ministries and 342 from the police.

It was Aftenposten who first talked about that several Norwegian samfunnstopper had been affected by the leak.

They could validate that the password used by the prime minister, Erna Solberg, Telenor ceo Sigve Brekke, DnB ceo Rune Bjerke and development minister Nikolai Astrup, had been posted openly on the web.

New and old leaks

the Newspaper wrote that the samples showed that Norwegian top politicians and business executives resort to very obvious phrases when they create their passwords. They claimed that in many cases, used the name of his wife, children, or dogs, in combination with the year of birth or other numbers.

Some of the passordlekkasjene took place several years ago, and has circulated on the web a while. It does not make the information less useful for criminals, writes Forbes.

people have a habit of recycling their own passwords, or use similar versions of the password later. There are also many who do not react quickly enough on the passordlekkasjer, which can lead to more of these passwords are still in use.

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