Nowadays, the digital age has led people to register their email on various online shopping platforms, music and video streaming services, among many others. This easy registration saves you from having to enter passwords.
Connecting email to these platforms can be the target of cybercriminals who constantly try to steal personal data to commit crimes or simply sell it on the Deep Web.
These types of acts have led big tech companies to create security tools like double authentication, which prevent hackers from easily accessing and stealing accounts.
Recently, Troy Hunt, a renowned cybersecurity analyst, revealed a new case of leakage of 71 million email addresses and 100 million passwords stored in plain text. This data circulates for free in forums often frequented by cybercriminals.
To determine the leak, the analyst took samples of a 104 GB file and then carried out numerous tests in collaboration with the victims, concluding that the emails and passwords were real, according to the web portal Xataka .
Hunt is also known for creating the “Have I Been Pwned” page, which serves to identify data leaked by cybercriminals. 67% of the leaked data was already uploaded to the page, while the remaining 33% was completely new.
How to find out if your password has been leaked?
Through ‘Have I Been Pwned’ you will be able to find out if your password has been leaked by cyber criminals. This open source platform promises to protect your privacy.
Hacker published 100 million stolen Gmail passwords: find out if yours is there /
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To test it you will have to enter your password and the platform will tell you if it is among the lists that cyber criminals have access to. If so, you should consider changing the key to one that contains special characters, numbers, and uppercase and lowercase letters.
It should be noted that its use is your responsibility.
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2024-01-19 22:34:42
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