A billion people's data including home addresses leaked online in huge breach
A BILLION people’s data is leaked online in huge breach exposing email addresses, names and moreBy Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science ReporterHACKERS could now know vital information like your name, email address and birthday due to one of the world's biggest ever data breaches.
Other personal information leaked on the site included names, gender, date of birth, employer, social media account details and home addresses.Before the website was taken down it featured pages like this containing a lot of personal data"This is perhaps the biggest and most comprehensive email database I have ever reported," Mr Diachenko wrote in a blog post.
"Some of data was much more detailed than just the email address and included personally identifiable information."
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