Someone’s been hoarding stolen passwords on a compromised cloud service, and the NCA wants to help.
The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) has discovered a database containing more than 585 million stolen passwords and emails, and shared it with Have I Been Pwned? to expand and update its database of breached info. Have I Been Pwned? is an online service where people can go to check if their email, passwords or other personal details have been compromised, and even identify in which breach this happened. According to the report, the NCA found the database in a “compromised cloud storage facility”: “During recent NCA operational activity, the NCCU’s Mitigation@Scale team were able to identify a huge amount of potentially compromised credentials (emails and associated passwords) in a compromised cloud storage facility.
