A huge amount of data, totaling 26 billion records, was leaked online (including passwords, personal account names, email, and other data), total of 12 terabytes. The leaked data is related to services such as Linkedin, Twitter, Tencent, Weibo, and others. The leak also includes data for various government organizations in the United States, Brazil, Germany, the Philippines, Turkey, and other countries. Part of the leak is previously leaked data, but according to experts who examined it, they confirmed that it includes new data that had not been leaked before.

The leak contains 26 billion records inside 3,800 folders, each folder containing a specific leak incident. The danger is that hackers can exploit the data in a number of attacks, including identity theft attacks, phishing attacks, and others, to access more data ftom users to hack their accounts or obtain their banking credentials.

Users can Check whether their data has been leaked through websites such as haveibeenpwned or Cybernews-Checker.

Part of the companies affected by the leak:

  1. 1.4 billion data records from Tencent QQ – a Chinese instant messaging app
  2. 504 million data records from Weibo – a Chinese social media platform
  3. 360 million data records from MySpace
  4. 281 million data records From Twitter
  5. 251 million data records From LinkedIn
  6. 153 million data records from Adobe
  7. 151 million data records from MyfitnessPal
  8. 143 million data records from Canva

We recommend that users do the following:

  1. Use strong, unique passwords for each electronic account
  2. Use a different email address during registration for each electronic service.
  3. Avoid fraudulent messages that arrive via e-mail and other means of communication.
  4. Check the links before clicking on them, and detect them through services such as virustotal.