It is impossible to know how many others besides the spammer who compiled the database have downloaded their own copies. The data was available because the spammers failed to secure one of their servers, allowing any visitor to download many gigabytes of information without needing any credentials. ![]() It contains almost twice the records, once sanitised, than those contained in the River City Media breach from March, previously the largest breach from a spammer. Just for a sense of scale, that’s almost one address for every single man, woman and child in all of Europe.” Troy Hunt, an Australian computer security expert who runs the Have I Been Pwned site, which notifies subscribers when their data ends up in breaches, wrote in a blog post: “The one I’m writing about today is 711m records, which makes it the largest single set of data I’ve ever loaded into HIBP.
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