A security researcher uncovered an exposed online database that was stockpiling user information likely collected via malware-infected PCs.
A security researcher recently discovered an unprotected online database with a staggering 149 million stolen logins.
Jeremiah Fowler says the database was live on the web, with no password protection or encryption. “It contained 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling a massive 96GB of raw credential data,” he wrote in a post for ExpressVPN.
The database contained millions of unique logins for Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, Yahoo, and Netflix accounts. “Financial services accounts, crypto wallets or trading accounts, banking and credit card logins also appeared in the limited sample of records I reviewed,” he says.
Importantly, Fowler suspects a hacker created the database to store information stolen through malware.
