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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

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

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Gab Has Been Breached

Troy Hunt

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. "Every major tech company – from Facebook to Twitter – has been the target of multiple and continued data breaches."

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