The post america’s agencies hacked — fbi, doj, and ice officials caught in huge telegram data leak appeared first on deftechtimes. Yes — you read that right In may 2024, 2b rows of data with 361m unique email addresses were collated from malicious telegram channels
The data contained 122gb across 1.7k files with email addresses, usernames, passwords and in many cases, the website they were entered into The leak includes credentials harvested from over 1,700 stolen files sourced from cybercriminal channels on telegram itself The data appears to have been sourced from a combination of existing combolists and info stealer malware.
This dataset, discovered in a massive 1.5tb trove of logs from the alien txtbase channel, underscores the growing role of messaging platforms in cybercrime.according to hibp founder troy hunt, the breach. Cybersecurity researchers collected and shared with hibp a huge dataset of email addresses and passwords stolen by malware and cybercrime channels on telegram The data includes bleepingcomputer forums accounts and other sites' credentials that users should check and reset. Learn about telegram leaks, risks and protection strategies
Safeguard your privacy, prevent data misuse and stay secure online By sharon knowles, da vinci cybersecurity, south africa in may 2024, cybersecurity sources including databreaches.net and cybernews.com reported 2 billion rows of sensitive data surfacing on malicious telegram channels The dataset includes 361 million unique emails, usernames, passwords, and the websites they were used on — totalling 122gb of data in 1,700 files. If you’re an active telegram user, now is the time to take security seriously
