2019 Data breaches Hacking Personal Security 
Troy Hunt
JANUARY 8, 2019
Regular readers will appreciate the mechanics of this already but all those who I point here for whom this is new, this attack simply takes exposed credentials from a data breach and tries them on another site. Spotify "breaches" like this are enormously common. That's it, job done, they're into your account.
Troy Hunt
JANUARY 16, 2019
Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. The collection totalled over 12,000 separate files and more than 87GB of data.
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