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A team of CYBERNEWS researchers He has discovered A large library with 16,000 million filtered passwords. That would be long the theft of credentials in history, but it has not been. That library is actually a compilation of 30 large sets of data already filtered in the past. Should I reassure us “just” that?
Enough, but not quite.
It is not a new massive theft of data. Cybernews researchers do not show their sources, but they point out that this is in essence a compilation of “supermassive data sets containing billions of credentials.” In those leaks – ancient, but it is not known how much – data appears that according to Cybernews come from Google, Facebook or Apple users. Again, without offering evidence of it. They explain that none of these data sets had been discovered before, except for one with 184 million credentials that They mentioned in Wired At the end of May.
But it is still dangerous. The problem of a compilation like this is that it can serve as a great starting point for all types of cyber attacks. It is very likely that in that large database there will be a significant amount of duplicate credentials.
No one has stolen data from Google, Facebook or Apple (recently). Although media such as cybernews or forbes talk that there are credentials of these platforms, again if any will be belonging to old data theft – which Of course Yeah There has been-. There have been no robberies (much less massive) of credentials in these companies recently, and if there were them, they should have made a communication responsible for the incidents – in the US the US is used FORM 8-K OF THE SEC– They can affect their businesses.
Should I be worried? Relatively. It must be aware that these data theft give access to cybercriminals to millions of credentials (user and password) in all types of services, and they can gain access to our accounts in those services thanks to them and then attack them or use them as the basis of other attacks. But this is true every day, not only when a new security filtration appears.
Have Ien Pwned is a useful service that allows us to enter an email address to check it with the databases of previous data theft. A curiosity here: the number of accounts hacked on this platform is almost 15,000 million, very similar to the one indicated in Cybernews.
Check if you have hacked you. There has been a simple way to check if our email and password has leaked in any of these data theft. THE SERVICE HAVE I BEEN PWNED allows us Do it quicklyand here we have discovered something interesting: the database with which this platform works has almost 15,000 million accounts hacked in its registry. Almost the same number they are talking about in Cybernews, as if their great library was in essence the same one that has this service created by Troy Hunt cybersecurity expert.
And acts accordingly. When introducing your email, services may appear in which your account may have been compromised. What you should do in case this happens is to change your password as soon as possible in those services, and, if possible, strengthen the security of that password. There are several methods to do so: you can create a strong passworduse a Password manageruse the two -step authentication “Specially recommended,” or even make the leap to the passkeys If the service allows it.
Be careful out there. Those measures that we talk about should not only be applied if we realize that something has happened, but before it happens. It is better to prevent than healing, and it is worth reviewing the safety of our accounts on the Internet, especially the most sensitive. The mail (Gmail, for example) is especially delicate, since it is usually used as a password rescue method in many other services. It is a good idea here to go to the tools that allow verifying the security status of our accounts to reinforce it if possible. Google, for example, Maintain a control panel which we can access at all times to configure what is necessary and Avoid scares after.
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