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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources.

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Gab Has Been Breached

Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

I've investigated hundreds of data breaches over the years (there are 514 of them in Have I Been Pwned as I write this), and for the most part, the situation with Gab is just another day on the internet. "It is standard practice for passwords to be hashed. If your password is "maga2020!"

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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Gab Has Been Breached

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