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Login credentials of 149 mn accounts including Gmail, Facebook, Netflix leaked:...

Share FacebookTwitterWhatsAppPinterestLinkedinCopy URLTelegramEmailTumblrReddItPrintKoo NEW DELHI, Jan 24 : Login credentials, including usernames, passwords, of over 149 million accounts of internet firms, including Gmail, Instagram, Facebook, and Netflix, have allegedly been leaked, a report published by ExpressVPN said. The report published by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler claims that the publicly exposed data includes 48 million accounts on Gmail, 4 million on Yahoo, 17 million on Facebook, 6.5 million on Instagram, 3.4 million on Netflix, 1.5 million on Outlook, etc. “The publicly exposed database was not password-protected or encrypted.

Login credentials of 149 mn accounts including Gmail, Facebook, Netflix leaked:...

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Key Highlights

  • It contained 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling a massive 96 GB of raw credential data.
  • In a limited sampling of the exposed documents, I saw thousands of files that included emails, usernames, passwords, and the URL links to the login or authorization for the accounts,” Fowler said in the report.
  • Email queries to major firms named in the report did not elicit any immediate reply.
  • Fowler said the database was publicly accessible, allowing anyone who discovered it to potentially access the credentials of millions of individuals.
  • “The exposed records included usernames and passwords collected from victims around the world, spanning a wide range of commonly used online services and about any type of account imaginable,” he said.
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