Massive Data Breach Leaves 183 Million Email Credentials, Including Gmail Passwords, Exposed: Report
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a massive data breach involving tens of millions of leaked Gmail accounts. According to a report, the breach occurred in April of this year and was recently made public, with a record of over 183 million credentials in total. It not only includes email accounts, but also the passwords that are associated with them. The data breach is reportedly part of a larger stealer ecosystem, typically resulting from malware on the victim's machine. Massive Data Breach Exposes Credentials According to cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt, the massive volume of threat intelligence data was collated by Benjamin Brundage from the cybersecurity company Synthient. They managed to pull data from various sources, including criminal marketplaces, social media, forums, and Telegram, amounting to a total of 3.5TB. The vast corpus contained several files, with the largest of them being 2.6TB in size and featuring a document with almost 23 billion rows. This puts the dat...