Troy Hunt has set up up a searchable database that contains a whopping 773 million breached login details. The data has been put together by combining various high profile data breaches from the past years, including the data breaches to LinkedIn and Adobe
The database that he calls "Collection #1" includes email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. Yes, you got that ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by 8686: Has anyone done this? I always get nervous that this is a way to get more information from people.
I have done it twice none of my info has ever been compromised. This site says I have been pawned five times. I do all my banking shopping and bill paying online. one of my bank accounts had my social security no. as a login ID since 1995 I just changed that last week. god protects fools and me!
I've done it and found that my login has been compromised on 5 breached sites, no pastes. I'm not changing any of my passwords, though. I've been using my hotmail account for over 20 years now, and it stands to reason that it was compromised on this or that site at one time or another, but chances are I've changed my password there since then and am not exposed to any hacking. Obviously, I haven't noticed anything unusual in my logging on to my usual haunts. In my considered opinion, it would be a madness to start changing passwords on dozens of websites I frequent unless and until I notice any sign of something untoward going on.
2 pwnes on stealth accounts which I knew had been compromised prior through the Yahoo breach awhile back. Found one of my friends primary accounts had been hacked so notified him that there could be a problem, I'm sure he wasn't aware of this so all is good.
