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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Whilst there are many legitimate breaches that I recognise in that list, that's the extent of my verification efforts and it's entirely possible that some of them refer to services that haven't actually been involved in a data breach at all. HIBP never stores passwords next to email addresses and there are many very good reasons for this.