Biggest data leak ever, the personal information of 26 billion users got into the hands of hackers

Data Breach: Information about the data leak has been given by Bob Dyachenko, owner of SecurityDiscovery.com. This data leak includes very personal information of users. Cybernews has said in its report that with the help of this data leak, anyone's digital identity can be stolen.

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:16 PM (IST)
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Biggest data leak ever, the personal information of 26 billion users got into the hands of hackers

There are frequent reports of data leaks, but this particular breach is being referred to as the "Mother of All Breaches." 26 billion users' worth of data have been exposed in this data leak.

The owner of SecurityDiscovery.com, Bob Dyachenko, has provided information about this data leak. Users' highly personal information is exposed in this data leak. According to a report by Cybernews, anyone's digital identity could be stolen thanks to this data leak.

According to Amar Ajala, the majority of the data in this leak comes from Tencent QQ users, a Chinese instant messaging service. Just this app's 1.4 billion users' data has been compromised.

Apart from this, data of users of Weibo, MySpace, X and other sites is also included in this data leak. In this data leak, most of the data is from users of America, Brazil, Germany, the Philippines and Turkey.

If a user has used the same password for many types of accounts, then there is a big danger for him, because, with the help of this data leak, all his accounts can be accessed whose passwords are the same. Are.

If you also feel that your data may be included in this data leak, then you should immediately change the passwords of all your social media and digital platform accounts and turn on two-factor authentication.

Muskan Kumawat Journalist & Writer