Danger! Personal Data Of 26 Billions Of Bocor In The Biggest Cyber Attack Of All Time

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JAKARTA - Cybersecurity researchers have warned that your personal information may have been leaked in 'Mother of all Breaches' (MOAB), which they claim is the largest data leak ever in which more than 26 billion records have been revealed.

Sensitive information from multiple sites, including Twitter, Dropbox, and Linkedin, was found on unsafe pages. The researchers consider this leak to be very dangerous and can trigger a wave of cybercrime.

Bob Dyachenko, owner of Security Discovery.com, and researchers from Cybernews discovered this data leak in an unsafe website. While the owner of this leak is unlikely to be found, researchers say that this could be an evil perpetrator, a data broker, or service dealing with large amounts of data.

Preliminary research shows that this data does not come from new leaks, but is a collection of previous leaks. Of the 12 terabytes of records, some of them are most likely duplicates.

However, this data leak remains very worrying due to the nature of the information released. This hashtag is very dangerous because threat actors can take advantage of the data collected for various attacks, the researchers said.

They stated that these attacks could include identity theft, advanced phishing schemes, targeted cyberattacks, and unauthorized access to private and sensitive accounts.

The leaked data comes from hundreds of different sites, more than 20 of which have released hundreds of millions of records. The biggest leak came from Tencent's QQ, a popular Chinese messaging app, with 1.5 billion records in this leak.

To check if you are affected, you can use the Cybernews data leak check tool. Just enter your email address or phone number into the search bar and click 'check now' to see if the account information has been leaked.

The researchers warn that the biggest risk is that this footage can be the basis for a large wave of cybercrime. They suggest that users not provide more online personal information than is really needed.

If you're worried that your personal data has leaked in this leak, the most important step is to update your password. Ensure that you don't use the same password for some accounts to reduce the risk that one affected account will compromise all your data.

Those affected need to change their passwords and stay alert to phishing emails, while ensuring all accounts - affected or not - equipped with two-factor authentication," said Jake Moore, a global cybersecurity adviser to ESET.