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Full aricle: Wired<\/a><\/p>\n

“149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database<\/strong>
This \u201cdream wish list for criminals\u201d includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware.”<\/p>\n

Ful Article: Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n

Act Now\u201448 Million Gmail Usernames And Passwords Leaked Online<\/strong>
A highly respected veteran security researcher has confirmed that a database of 149 million compromised credentials, including those for an estimated 48 million Gmail accounts, has been leaked online. \u201cThe publicly exposed database was not password-protected or encrypted,\u201d Jeremiah Fowler said, adding that the database of unique logins and passwords totalled \u201ca massive 96 GB of raw credential data.\u201d Here\u2019s what we know so far, and what action you need to take.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Full aricle: Wired “149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured DatabaseThis \u201cdream wish list for criminals\u201d includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware.” Ful Article: Forbes Act Now\u201448 Million Gmail Usernames And Passwords Leaked OnlineA highly respected veteran security researcher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,46],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-page","tag-hacking","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolcentral.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolcentral.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolcentral.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolcentral.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolcentral.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/schoolcentral.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4464,"href":"https:\/\/schoolcentral.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolcentral.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolcentral.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolcentral.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolcentral.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}