🗃 Collection #5
About this breach
In January 2019, 5 collections appeared at the popular hacker forum, which are a combination of data from many other leaks. The fifth collection contains 16 thousand files with a total size of 42 gigabytes. The files contained 1.25 billion posts and passwords for them, but there were only 600 million unique lines. Unlike the rest of the collections, there was often information about which site the data leaked from.
Compromised Data
This breach exposed the following types of personal information:
Email
376.3M
100% of accounts
Total data points: 376.3M
Unique accounts affected: 376.3M
🔐 What should I do?
- Change your password immediately if you had an account
- Enable two-factor authentication where possible
- Monitor your accounts for suspicious activity
- Be aware of potential phishing attempts
📊 Data Classes
📩 Email
API Access
Get information about this breach programmatically:
GET https://data-wells.niamonx.io/api/breach/Collection-5