184M+ Credential Exposed on Suspected InfoStealer Malware Breach 

Recently, cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered and reported to Website Planet about a non-password-protected database containing over 184 million credential records from a suspected InfoStealer malware breach affecting a wide range of services, applications, and accounts, including email providers, Microsoft products, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Roblox, and many more.

What happened:

A publicly exposed database was found containing 184,162,718 records with a total size of 47.42 GB. The exposed data includes emails, login account names, passwords, authorization URLs, and more.

Why it matters:

This kind of breach could lead to targeted phishing attacks, identity theft or financial fraud, social engineering and more.

Read the full report here: https://www.websiteplanet.com/news/infostealer-breach-report/

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