Massive data leak reveals 26 billion records

A data leak containing billions of records and 12 terabytes of data includes information from LinkedIn, Twitter, Tencent, and other platforms.

The data leak, dubbed the Mother of All Breaches (MOAB), contains information from numerous previous breaches and is likely the largest of its kind.

Cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko and the Cybernews team discovered the dataset, which includes records from thousands of well-organized and reindexed leaks, as well as breached and privately sold databases.

The team believes that the leaked dataset mostly contains information from earlier breaches. However, since thousands of leaks are included, there‘s likely new, never-seen-before data.

According to the researchers, the MOAB contains over 26 billion records over 3,800 folders, with each folder signifying a separate data breach.

The largest number of records, 1.4 billion, comes from Tencent QQ, a Chinese instant messaging app.

However, there are supposedly hundreds of millions of records from Weibo (504M), MySpace (360M), Twitter (281M), Deezer (258M), Linkedin (251M), AdultFriendFinder (220M), Adobe (153M), Canva (143M), VK (101M), Daily Motion (86M), Dropbox (69M), Telegram (41M), and many other companies and organizations.