Email verification company Verifications.io leaked Email addresses of almost one billion people. Last week it was estimated as 700 million but number of exposed email addresses now reached one billion.
Last week’s estimate of over 700 million leaked email addresses from https://t.co/hUP8kdNhYE may have been low. The number of leaked emails may be closer to 2 billion. This and more on this week's podcast. pic.twitter.com/hBMw6qU3Z9
— Raymond Tec @mike@social.raytec.co (@RaymondTecIT) March 19, 2019
Even some reports number is more than one billion.
— Steve Sacco (@steve_sacco) March 31, 2019
Experts Comments Below:
Byron Rashed, VP of Marketing at Centripetal Networks:
about one’s self is exposing the individual to a variety of cyber crimes. Credentials can be leveraged by a threat actor for identity theft on a personal level and corporate network infiltration and data exfiltration for businesses.
Enterprises should enabling blocking of such malicious sources, which is key to preventing network infiltration and reducing and mitigating the risk of data exfiltration. Corporate policy should govern and prevent the use of their corporate credentials on non-work related sites as well. Education of employees is always the best first line of defense, since most breaches are caused by human error.”
Adam Laub, SVP Product Management at STEALTHbits Technologies:
“As we work towards making the keepers of our information more accountable for its security, we need to acknowledge and remind ourselves that the security of our data and our identities is really on each of us individually. This is not a pessimistic viewpoint, but rather a realistic viewpoint based on the world we live in. We need to be discerning with who we give our information to, vigilant with our password hygiene, and aware of our online activities, from banking to social media and everywhere in between.”
Franklyn Jones, CMO at Cequence Security:
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