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Re:The Lie Behind 1.2B Stolen Passwords by greeq on Friday August 08, 2014 @12:38PM (#8153687)
Of course this didn't actually happen as it was reported. No where near that many passwords have ever been leaked. And the only thing they were telling us was "scary russian hackers get access to billions of passwords!"

I've found over the years it's easy to tell when a story about security isn't all that true. A story without any actual evidence behind it, that sounds very scary, is almost never true.

Re:The Lie Behind 1.2B Stolen Passwords by dm2 on Friday August 08, 2014 @01:45PM (#8154083)
That's probably pretty close to the aggregate number of credentials leaked, and these leaks are easily downloaded or bought on the internet.

It wouldn't be difficult (and is commonly done) to create a large database of all leaked credentials.