Reportedly, 183 million email accounts and their associated passwords have been exposed in a massive breach. However, it seems the situation has been misunderstood. The confusion began when data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://haveibeenpwned.com/” data-url=”https://haveibeenpwned.com/” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt announced in a blog post that he had added a huge new dataset containing 183 million unique email addresses and passwords, some of which were linked to Gmail.
The dataset didn’t come from a single Gmail hack. Instead, it was compiled from “ data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://synthient.com/blog/the-stealer-log-ecosystem?ref=troyhunt.com” data-url=”https://synthient.com/blog/the-stealer-log-ecosystem?ref=troyhunt.com” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>stealer logs,” which are malware…
