Security researchers of Cybernews have given information about this. This attack is called ‘mother of all breaches’. The size of the data stolen by criminals is as much as 12 terabytes.
Mother of Data Breach
Data has become the most expensive thing these days. That’s why cybercriminals are making a lot of efforts to steal data from websites and apps. Data leakage of a website is not new anymore. But the biggest data leak so far has come to light. As many as 26 billion files of various popular websites have been leaked.
Security researchers of Cybernews have given information about this. This attack is called ‘mother of all breaches’. The report says that the size of the data stolen by the criminals is as much as 12 terabytes. One terabyte is 100 GB, which gives an idea of the enormity of this data.
Which apps are included?
This report has given information about which app or website has leaked data.
• X (Twitter) – 281 million records (X Data Leak)
• LinkedIn (Linked In) – 251 million records
• Adobe (Adobe) – 153 million records
• Canva – 143 million records
• Dropbox – 69 million records
• Telegram – 41 million records
• Daily Motion – 86 million records
• MySpace (MySpace) – 360 million records
• Weibo – 504 million records
• Deezer – 258 million records
• Adult Friend Finder – 220 million records
• VK – 101 million records
• Tencent QQ – 1.4 billion records
What data was leaked?
This data not only contains login details of users, but also includes other confidential and private information. This 12 TB of data contains 3,800 folders. Each of these folders contains different data. It can be used for identity theft, phishing, cyber attacks and many other types of misdeeds.
Check your data like this
You can check for yourself whether your personal data has been leaked or not. For this you have to take the help of ‘Have I Been Pawned’ website. After giving some of your details here, it will tell you whether it has been leaked on the internet or elsewhere.
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