Historic data leak reveals 26B records from Adobe, others, Cybernews reports

Bob Dyachenko, cybersecurity researcher and owner at SecurityDiscovery.com, together with the Cybernews team, has discovered billions upon billions of exposed records on an open instance whose owner is unlikely ever to be identified, Cybernews’ Vilius Petkauskas reports. The “supermassive Mother of all Breaches” does not appear to be made up of newly stolen data only and is most likely the largest compilation of multiple breaches, the author says. While the team identified over 26 billion records, duplicates are also highly likely. However, the leaked data contains far more information than just credentials – most of the exposed data is sensitive and, therefore, valuable for malicious actors. There are supposedly hundreds of millions of records from Weibo, MySpace, Twitter, Deezer, Linkedin (MSFT), AdultFriendFinder, Adobe (ADBE), Canva, VK, Daily Motion, Dropbox (DBX), Telegram, and many other companies and organizations.