184.162,718 Passwords and registrations leaked – Apple, Facebook, Snapchat

I have apparently spent a disproportionate amount of my time to examine, analyze and report on stolen login information. At one end of the scale there was the discovery of 19 billion endangered passwords for Dark Web forums, and on the other hand the ridiculously low costs for buying cybercriminals. However, it was not all bad news, as I reported on May 22nd one of the greatest culprit in the password -infostal industry, and that is certainly as it is, Lumma Stealer, was just hit by a global takedown operation under the direction of Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit. But just when I was at a high high, I was waiting for the discovery, waiting for 184.162,718 registration information, including passwords and registration data, on earth, including passwords and registration data that is available to everyone online. Yes, a full, great database full of plain text passwords, e -mail addresses and user names, all of which are unprotected there, in plain text for which everyone can use. And it gets worse when you realize that the login information from Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Roblox and Snapchat were included. You need to know the following.

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Unprotected database of 184 million stolen passwords and login information found online

It is one thing to find databases with stolen login information on the dark web or on the many criminal marketplaces and forums in the surface network, but an unprotected, publicly exposed 47.42 GB database with 84.162.718 unique logins and passwords that are only located on a web hosting platform. But here we are, that happened.

The purpose of the database is still unknown. The Hosting platform has not published any information about the owner, but the security researcher, who revealed the shocking discovery, said that the records “show several signs that the exposed data was harvested by a kind of info -malware”.

The well-known cyber security researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, who both discovered the database for public registration information and wrote the published report of May 22nd, said that as well as registration and password login information for the platforms already mentioned were found that “registration information for banking and financial accounts, health platforms and government portals could be triggered from numerous countries. Hosting providers have proof of disclosure, and I can report that the database, although it has not run down, has now lifted its public access.

Be no doubt, this is a very important leak of sensitive login information. I contacted Apple, Meta, Roblox and Snapchat to explain this plain text passwords and advice for their users as a result. If in the meantime you use the same passwords in several services, I recommend changing them into clear in some urgency.

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