for the second Time this year, the topic of data security in the Internet device in the focus: Collection #1 was "discovered" - a set of data with millions of stolen E-Mail addresses and passwords.
The Internet is a huge data set with a stolen E-Mail was discovered addresses and passwords. The collection of Log-in data with the name "Collection #1", contains approximately 773 million e-Mail addresses and more than 21 million different passwords, such as the Australian IT security expert and Microsoft employee, Troy Hunt, in his Internet blog reports.
users worldwide"Collection #1" consists of 87 gigabytes of data from "many individual Data thefts and Thousands of different sources," warns Hunt. Affected users from all over the world, also from Germany. The IT-expert offers in the network haveibeenpwned.com the possibility to check, whether the own E-Mail address has been tapped. This is adjusted according to the Hunt with millions of information from data leaks.