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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are there any genuine articles on this? I assume forbes is just clickbait

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I haven't seen anything on this one specifically, but if it's anything like the previous releases of this size, it's just a compilation of a bunch of older releases, not billions of new passwords.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That's the thing, the article says it's all new:

    The 16 billion strong leak, housed in a number ion supermassive datasets, includes billions of login credentials from social media, VPNs, developer portals and user accounts for all the major vendors. Remarkably, I am told that none of these datasets have been reported as leaked previously, this is all new data. Well, almost none: the 184 million password database I mentioned at the start of the article is the only exception.

    but the autistics on Mastodon aren't going wild about this so I feel safe assuming it's Forbes clickbait

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