A government agency tipped off Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), leading to the addition of 284 million unique email addresses and billions of stolen credentials. The discovery stemmed from Hunt's analysis of credential-stealing malware data, revealing a Telegram channel named Alien Txtbase that offered 1.5TB of stolen data. This included 36 million rows of identifiable web credentials. HIBP has since expanded its resources, adding APIs for users to access logged data specifically by email and website domains.
A tip-off from a government agency has resulted in 284 million unique email addresses and plenty of passwords snarfed by credential-stealing malware being added to privacy-breach-notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).
Hunt parsed the trove and added 244 million new compromised passwords to Pwned Passwords and updated frequency counts for an additional 199 million passwords already in the database.
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