Massive Data Breach: 361 Million Email Addresses Leaked from Telegram Channels
Check if your email has joined the “361 Million Club” on Have I Been Pwned! Cybersecurity researchers unearthed a massive trove of stolen credentials from Telegram channels, now available for public scrutiny. A staggering 361 million email addresses—151 million of which are new—have been added. Are you pwned yet?
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361 million excuses to finally use a password manager that isn’t your browser’s built-in one. Seriously, if your email isn’t on Have I Been Pwned yet, are you even trying?
Key Points:
- 361 million email addresses added to Have I Been Pwned from stolen credentials.
- Data collected from numerous Telegram cybercrime channels.
- 151 million of these email addresses are new to the service.
- Stolen data includes username, password combinations, and URLs.
- Credential-stealing malware is a major source of these compromised data sets.
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