The National Crime Agency (NCA) and the National Cybercrime Unit (NCCU) have provided 225 million new stolen emails and related passwords through Have I Being Pwned (HIBP). HIBP is a free service that can track theft Credentials so that people know if their credentials have been stolen. break.
In recent NCA operations, NCCU’s [email protected] The team identified more than 585.5 million potentially stolen credentials (emails and related passwords), which are located in stolen cloud storage facilities. In a statement regarding HIBP, NCA stated that analysis revealed that these credentials represent an accumulation of known and unknown data sets.
The officials wrote: “They were placed in the cloud storage facilities of British companies by unidentified criminals. This means that these credentials are now in the public domain and other third parties can access these credentials for further fraud or cybercrime. “
NCCU officials contacted Troy Hunt, founder and CEO of HIBP, which already has 613 million passwords in its real-time Pwned Passwords service. Hunt imported and parsed the data set provided by NCA based on existing passwords, and discovered more than 225.6 million new instances. Now, all passwords shared by NCA can now be searched in HIBP’s real-time API.
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