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Re:2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added by AdmiralAsshat on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:01AM (#16465713)
So my most-breached e-mail address (a hotmail address from 17 years ago that I basically use for stuff I know will send me spam) has 3 or 4 newly-added breaches.

  2,844 Separate Data Breaches (unverified): In February 
  2018, a massive collection of almost 3,000 alleged data 
  breaches was found online. Whilst some of the data had 
  previously been seen in Have I Been Pwned, 2,844 of the 
  files consisting of more than 80 million unique email 
  addresses had not previously been seen. Each file 
  contained both an email address and plain text password 
  and were consequently loaded as a single "unverified" 
  data breach.

  Compromised data: Email addresses, Passwords

The problem is I have no idea what this breach is sourced from, so I don't know what account in particular was affected. Not Troy's fault, obviously, but it's basically just telling me, "Your e-mail address and a password to somewhere was found online somewhere." For all I know it's recycled data from a breach I already know about.

At this point it's not really a big deal. I use a password manager and they're all random at this point, so I just need to figure out which one to rotate.

Re:2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added by tail-recursion on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:27AM (#16465900)
I wrote a little python script to match the websites with the Alexa Top 1 Million and sort by rank. I found 268 top 1 million sites in the pwned list. You can check out the ranking here if you want https://github.com/tail-recursion/hibp-rankings/. Notable websites include; lotro.com, mtgox.com, malwarebytes.org, daemon-tools.cc, autohotkey.com, vbulletin.org
Re:2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added by ryanlol on Monday February 26, 2018 @12:35PM (#16467117)
So, recycled old dumps all of them? Every single big site I can see here has coincidentally already had their data publicly dumped.
Re:2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added by chadlavi on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:16AM (#16465832)
Same. I got the email this morning and looked to see what I need to do. Turns out, what I need to do is just, like, be wary? No way to know what accounts I ought to go change passwords for. Seems unreasonable to go change literally all of them over this, that would take forever. This news makes me panicky but gives me no reasonable course of action.