One of the world’s largest data breaches: 26 Billion records stolen

25 Jan 2024 · 1 min
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YouTube short by Caitlin Sarian explaining a mass compilation of breached credentials described as "26 billion account records" (about 12 terabytes) that aggregates many past breaches into one dataset. The speaker clarifies the data is not newly stolen but compiled, warns viewers their accounts may be included, and gives actionable advice: enable multi-factor authentication, change passwords, and check haveibeenpwned.com.

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26 billion account records.

12 terabytes of data.

January 25, 2024.

haveibeenpwned.com

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