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It's just one of those things that's become a part of life now for most people. When one of the first major data breaches occurs in your life, there's a pretty good chance that you are in shock and ...

A jaw-dropping trove of 149 million login credentials — including millions of Gmail and Facebook passwords — was recently found sitting in a publicly accessible database, but this isn’t another ...

A database containing 149 million usernames and passwords has reportedly been removed after a researcher notified the hosting provider of an exposure. According to Wired, the database contained 48 ...

The publicly exposed data includes 48 million accounts on Gmail, 4 million on Yahoo, 17 million on Facebook, 6.5 million on Instagram, 3.4 million on Netflix, 1.5 million on Outlook, etc. Image used ...