For years now, Have I Been Pwned has been the go-to place to check if your email address has been involved in a data breach or leak, and this week the site added a whopping 183 million email accounts to its database with corresponding leaked login details. According to a recent update on its site, the leaked data that was recently posted online includes email addresses and their passwords, as well as the websites they’re associated with.
The posted data was collected with the assistance of Synthient, which is a cybersecurity platform and tool that helps detect and block bad actors online. The data was cleansed before inclusion into the database so that there were no duplicate entries, only unique addresses, at a total of 15.3 billion.
