2B email addresses and 1.3B passwords compromised in data breaches

Some 2 billion email addresses and 1.3 billion passwords have been compromised in a series of data breaches highlighted by a cybersecurity company.

Microsoft regional director Troy Hunt, who runs the site Have I Been Pwned, says the stolen data is more extensive than anything the site has ever processed …

To be clear, this isn’t a single data breach. Instead, security company Synthient sought out stolen logins available on the dark web and compiled them into a single…