The recent ‘Collection #1’ data breach that leaked 773M accounts is only the tip of the iceberg

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Reports earlier this week revealed what’s being referred to “Collection #1,” an 87GB pile of data that included no less than 773 million unique email accounts and more than 21 million different passwords. In total, the database contained some 2.7 billion records, and we already told you how to check whether it contains your email account(s). It turns out that Collection #1 might be part of series of similar data collected from other online breaches, as someone out there has been hoarding all this data, and it’s making it accessible to nefarious actors for just $45.

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