Daily Fail regurgitating old hat again. For anyone interested in more actual details, here’s Troy Hunt with a written analysis and now also a follow-up on what he speculated after the first announcement by Cybernews; a re-leak of known data

I wouldn’t trust the Daily Mail as far as I can throw it. It’s objectively the lowest quality, least factually correct, most sensationalist, and most extremely biased mainstream newspaper we have in the UK. Essentially the British equivalent of Fox News.

Of the companies listed on the screenshot or mentioned in the article, at least LinkedIn, Twitter, Deezer, Dropbox, Zynga and MyFitnessPal have been hacked before. Probably just a collection of old data?

Edit: Yeah, aggregated data

Too early to tell for sure, but it looks like the current theory is that it’s some combination of aggregating existing breach data and information gleaned from credential stuffing attacks.

It’s more plausible than some absurd number of websites all had the same 0-day leading to 26,000,000,000 accounts leaked. The people selling these aren’t exactly trustworthy and are just as likely to repackage old leaks to rip each other off with.

Is CyberNews’ data checker safe? Or is entering an email just confirming a valid email address to the breachers?