The Internet has a huge record with stolen log-in information appeared.
It contains almost 773 million different e-mail addresses and contains over 21 million plain text readable passwords, reports IT security expert Troy Hunt.
The record bundles information „from many individual data thefts and thousands of different sources,“ wrote Hunt in a blog entry on Thursday. The Microsoft employee runs a database where Internet users can verify that their log-in information is affected by data theft.
In recent years, there have been various hacker attacks, which were sometimes captured hundreds of millions of combinations of e-mail addresses and passwords. Most of the passwords were cryptographically encrypted.
