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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

I've written before about what's involved in verifying data breaches and it's often a non-trivial exercise. I've reproduced a list that was published to the hacking forum I mentioned and that contains 2,890 file names. This gives you a sense of the origins of the data but again, I need to stress "allegedly".

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Gab Has Been Breached

Troy Hunt

Because I myself have a Gab account which I created when started making commentary on them and Parler in Jan, naturally the first thing I did was to pull out my own record: Looking into the (alleged) @getongab data breach, many records don't have an email address or a password hash (mine has the former, but not the latter). Coincidence?

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