A security researcher who took it upon himself to collect credentials data from locations where cybercriminals had published it discovered nearly 2 billion unique email addresses, along with 1.3 billion passwords.

The data has been verified, indexed and uploaded to Australian breach site HaveIBeenPwned.com , run by Troy Hunt, which sent out alerts today to registered users who monitor for credentials leaks for free.

Final-year college student Ben Brundage runs Synthient, a company that devised a threat intelligence system which aims to capture as much unique data as possible for close-to real time alerting.

It trawled 30 billion messages from comms and social app Telegram, forums with infostealer malware logs and database dumps published, and social media sites to gather data on cr

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