If you haven’t checked to see if your credentials have been stolen by hackers, you absolutely should as 1.3 billion unique passwords along with 2 billion unique email addresses have been exposed online.

No, this isn’t another data breach where a major company or retailer’s systems were infiltrated by hackers. Instead, the threat intelligence firm Synthient scoured both the open and dark web looking for leaked email addresses and passwords. If the company’s name sounds familiar, it’s because they recently came across 183 million leaked email accounts.

The bulk of this data consists of credential stuffing lists which typically contain logins aggregated from past data breaches where email addresses and passwords were exposed. These collections of stolen credentials are then sold to other cy

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