More than 149 million passwords were exposed in an unsecured database, including logins for social media, streaming services, dating apps, and high-risk accounts like banking and crypto platforms.

Some 48 million Gmail usernames and passwords have been leaked in a criminal database. The full database contains 149 million compromised credentials, including 17 million Facebook accounts, 6.5 ...

A security researcher recently discovered an unprotected online database with a staggering 149 million stolen logins. Jeremiah Fowler says the database was live on the web, with no password protection ...

Jeremiah Fowler, a veteran security researcher, recently stumbled upon 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling about 96GB of raw data. There was no encryption… and it didn’t even have a ...

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler (via ExpressVPN) has once again uncovered a huge publicly accessible trove of data. The massive container of unique usernames and passwords was exposed on the ...

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the ...

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