DATA LEAK EXPOSES BILLIONS OF ACCOUNTS.

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In January, a massive trove of leaked personal data referred to as Collection #1 was posted to a hacking forum, exposing 773 million unique email addresses and passwords. Immediately called the largest ever public data breach by volume, Collection #1 was quickly followed by Collection #2-5, which total about three times as many unique records. The collections are composed of thousands of files from different data breaches compiled into a database and disseminated. Such information is typically used in...