Over 700M email addresses were recently compromised. Was yours one of them?

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by Sindy Cator on August 30, 2017 at 6:31 pm

Security researchers discovered a doozy of a spam list this week — over 711 million email addresses on it in total. That means it’s time to check your security again. A Paris-based researcher called Benkow uncovered the spambot, called “Onliner.” It uses a tiny, pixel-sized images hidden in spam emails to gather details about recipient’s computers. Security expert Troy Hunt says the list contains a “mind-boggling amount of data.” What makes Onliner particularly unpleasant is the massive amount of SMTP credentials used to circumvent spam filters. The credentials appear to be mostly scraped from other data leaks. While just having…