Virginia: Cybersecurity researchers have warned that the recent leak of more than 26 billion private records has been dubbed the biggest data leak in history.
According to the report, this leak includes sensitive data of several websites including Twitter, Dropbox and LinkedIn.
Worryingly, researchers who tracked down the leak say the breach is extremely dangerous and could trigger a tsunami of cybercrime.
Bob Diachenko, owner of SecurityDiscovery.com, and other researchers pinpointed the data breach at an unsecured opportunity.
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Although the identity of the breach is unknown, researchers believe that hackers, data brokers or a service that processes large amounts of data are behind it.
Initial studies of the data suggest that this is not a new breach, but a collection of past data breaches.
According to the researchers, some of the 12 terabytes of records contain duplicates. However, due to the sensitivity of the information contained in the exposed data, data breaches are of great concern.
The researchers said that this dataset is extremely dangerous and can be used by cybercriminals for a wide range of attacks. These attacks include identity theft, sophisticated fraud schemes, specialized cyber attacks and illegal access to private and sensitive accounts.
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