No, not everyone was a victim three times over. Still, the vast number of compromised records indicates that people you trust with your data are not as careful as they should be or could be.
The breach is called the "mother of all breaches" by news outlets:
According to the team, while the leaked dataset contains mostly information from past data breaches, it almost certainly holds new data, that was not published before. For example, the Cybernews data leak checker, which relies on data from all major data leaks, contains information from over 2,500 data breaches with 15 billion records.
The MOAB contains 26 billion records over 3,800 folders, with each folder corresponding to a separate data breach. While this doesn’t mean that the difference between the two automatically translates to previously unpublished data, billions of new records point to a very high probability, the MOAB contains never seen before information.
Researchers believe that the owner of the MOAB has a vested interest in storing large amounts of data and, therefore, could be a malicious actor, data broker, or some service that works with large amounts of data.
So, what can you do? Well, having a secure password is one thing. Having different passwords for each account is another. And having disposable passwords may even be an option.
My data showed up in ten of the records. These are services and data brokers that didn't keep the data safe. I've changed the passwords on the services (see suggestion 1) and already had different passwords for each service (see suggestion 2). Oh, and I use disposable email address for most services.
My Streaming Life is impacted by this breach, as at least one of my streaming services was breached. Data breaches will happen. They are not okay, I'm just being realistic. The steps I take (listed earlier) will make it difficult for someone to do anything with the data.
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