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Sead Fadilpašić

One of the biggest password dumps in recent history has been revealed - but there's an easy way to find out if you're at risk

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For roughly four months, a gigantic email and password dump was circulating on the dark web, and no one in the cybersecurity community noticed, until now.

Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) has added a new database containing roughly 71 million email addresses to its platform. The service allows users to see if their email addresses were picked up by threat actors at any time in the past and, if so, which service was breached to obtain the information.

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