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| Are You on the List of Recently Breached Email Addresses and Passwords, How to Check
A massive database containing 772,904,991 unique email addresses and more than 21 million unique passwords was recently posted to an online hacking forum, according to Wired. The hack was first reported by Troy Hunt of the hack-security site Have I Been Pwned, which lets you check whether your email and passwords have been compromised and which sites your information was leaked from. According to Wired, it appears that the breach, called "Collection #1," doesn't originate from one source but rather is an aggregation of 2,000 leaked databases that include passwords that have been cracked, meaning the protective layer that scrambles or "hashes" a password to prevent it from being visible has been cracked to be presented in a usable form on hacking forums. Data in Collection #1 wasn't put up for sale, as that in many leaks are. It was first on a popular cloud hosting site called Mega before being taken down, then posted on a public hacking site. Collection #1 is among the largest data