There was another post about the major data breach, but it's getting a whole lot worse. Though the 770+ million emails were already leaked, that's only (allegedly) 8% of the total breach. There's also a specific folder labeled "BTC Combos". I compiled some information here.

Sorry for the clickbait title, but this is pretty serious.There was a data breach called "Collection #1" that had about 87GB worth of email addresses and passwords. There was nearly 3 billion records, and over 700 million unique email addresses included.On top of that, 140 million of the addresses had never shown up before.But it gets worse.There is reportedly 4 additional collections that are MUCH larger in scale. They're currently being evaluated to see if they might just be re-packages of previous hacks.Currently, "Collection #1" is the biggest single leak ever recorded. What's truly insane is that Collection #1 constituted about 8% of the total data (in terms of size) that has been reported across all 5 "collections".There is also a specific folder marked "BTC Combos". Obviously this should be treated with the utmost care.Some other facts:"Collection #1" is reported to be about 2-3 years old, and contains data from 2008-2015 (not confirmed, but that's what initial looks say from what I've gathered)Collections #2-#5 do not have much information about them.The hacker, known as "Sanixer" claims to have up to 4TB of password data in total, stating that some is "less than a year old".Links for further reading:KrebsOnSecurityBRG.com ArticleTroy Hunt's Blog (owner of HaveIBeenPwned)Be careful out there!

Submitted January 19, 2019 at 12:30AM