A new 12TB database of 26 billion records has been found exposed online by security researchers, although its contents were pieced together from previous breaches.
The haul was discovered by Cybernews and noted security researcher Bob Diachenko on a publicly available instance with no authentication required for access.
Among the records leaked in the trove are 1.5 billion belonging to Tencent customers and 500 million from Chinese Twitter-like site Weibo, alongside MySpace (360 million), Twitter (281 million), LinkedIn (251 million), Adobe (153 million) and many more.
However, it’s unlikely that any previously undiscovered breaches have been made public in the leak.
“Every single data breach ever reported or sold was carefully collected by an unknown actor and left in a misconfigured instance,” clarified Diachenko.
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