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Have I Been Pwned adds 284M accounts stolen by infostealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The blog post regarding this "dump" suggests that it was actually from malware, so the answer to "Does that mean malware was once on your system?" is likely to be Yes. https://www.troyhunt.com/processing-23-billion-rows-of-alien-txtbase-stealer-logs/

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Likely perhaps, but this email address hasn't been actively used by me in over a decade, which means either this dataset is extremely old, or maybe the holders of the data had been compromised by malware when they were attempting to gain access to whatever website. Who knows?

    And since it was a singular address, and none of my other addresses were affected, im able to determine the timeline of when I was affected by this. Its during an era where this email address was involved with many data breaches.

    There are 23 billion records in this stealer log, with only 284 million unique entries.

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