A supermassive database of 26 billion leaked records has been discovered, in what has been called the “Mother of all Breaches” (“MOAB” for short). The massive 12 Terabyte leak was discovered by cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko, working alongside the team at Cybernews. The owner of the open database instance is unlikely ever to be identified. The data contains both credentials and sensitive data.
A quick run through the data tree reveals that the largest number of records, 1.4 billion, comes from Tencent QQ, a Chinese instant messaging app. Next, there are supposedly hundreds of millions of records from Weibo (504M), MySpace (360M), Twitter (281M), Deezer (258M), Linkedin (251M), AdultFriendFinder (220M), Adobe (153M), Canva (143M), VK (101M), Daily Motion (86M), Dropbox (69M), Telegram (41M), and many other companies and organizations.
The leak also includes records of various government organizations in the US, Brazil, Germany, Philippines, Turkey, and other countries.
Cybernews is offering a data leak checker to include information from the MOAB, which will allow users to see whether their data was included in the largest known data leak. Meanwhile, users are strongly advised to stay vigilant and take care of their cyber hygiene.
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