A massive data breach has exposed over 26 billion private records. Experts dub it ‘The Mother of All Breaches” or MOAB because of the extraordinary amount of user data it exposed.
It happened when Leak-Lookup, a data breach search engine, misconfigured a firewall that left its massive collection of breached information exposed.
While a lot of that data was related to past security breaches, there was new data in the mix. Data from government organizations around the world was exposed as well as accounts from major companies like:
Myspace – 360 million records
Twitter – 281 million records
LinkedIn – 251 million records
Adobe -153 million records
Dropbox – 69 million records
Canva -143 million records
Evite – 179 million records
Now might be a good time to change your passwords. As always, enable multi-factor authentication whenever possible. Freezing your credit is never a bad idea as it can stop crooks from using your name to create new accounts.
wow, that’s a whopper and, we continue to be left vulnerable.
Does changing passwords apply to those that are computer-generated? and, is there a way to ‘kill’ accounts that are no longer needed? I’d like to get out of many of them and don’t know how. Thanks, Cyn.