In the huge data breach, usernames and passwords for Facebook and Netflix accounts have been leaked, among other things. You can easily check the fate of your own IDs.
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In the massive data leak, up to 70 million usernames and passwords have been revealed, some of which have been used for example on Facebook, Netflix, Ebay, Paypal and the Coinbase cryptocurrency platform.
An estimated 65 percent of the addresses can already be found in the database of the website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), which tracks information leaks, which means that up to 35 percent of the addresses would be new leaks.
Administrator of HIBP Troy Hunt tells on their websitethat such a number of new IDs is exceptional.
– This is not just about the usual code list, which is published again and again repackaged and marketed in some way as a significant leak. It’s really a significant amount of new data, says Hunt.
Hunt made the data leak public a couple of weeks ago, but it is known to have already happened last fall. Hunt said that he also found his own credentials in the new leak.
Username-password pairs that are used in several different services are at particular risk. The general recommendation is to use a different password for all services so that one data leak does not risk the security of all accounts.
Check yours and take the necessary steps
If you want to check whether your credentials have been part of this or a previous data leak, you can enter your e-mail address, for example to F-Secure’s Identity Theft Checker tool or for widely utilized For Have I Been Pwned.
If your e-mail is found in a data leak, at the latest then it is necessary to implement strong identification and change the unique password for each service used with that ID.
Data security expert and information writer Petteri Järvinen told In an interview with Ylethat among the information leak there are probably also Finns’ usernames and passwords.
– The services are global, and they have a total of millions of users in Finland. Yes, Finns can fit into that group, Järvinen stated to Yle.
Source: Troy Hunt