{"id":157990,"date":"2024-01-26T17:19:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T17:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/?p=157990"},"modified":"2024-01-26T17:26:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T17:26:36","slug":"mother-of-all-breaches-6-steps-to-stay-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/mother-of-all-breaches-steps-to-stay-safe","title":{"rendered":"‘Mother of All Breaches’: Steps to Stay Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, the internet was rocked by the news of a massive data breach<\/a> that exposed 26 billion records of user information from popular online services, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Adobe, Telegram, and Canva.<\/p>\n

The breach, which became known as the “Mother of All Breaches” (MOAB), poses a significant threat to the online privacy and security of millions, if not billions, of users, as cybercriminals can use the aggregated data for various attacks, such as identity theft, phishing<\/a> scams, and targeted cyberattacks.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time a large collection of user data has been leaked or exposed on the web. In 2019, a similar breach known as the “Collection #1” exposed 773 million email addresses and 21 million passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Bloomberg reported a data breach<\/a> that affected Alibaba, a Chinese shopping website, where over the data of 1 billion users was exposed.<\/p>\n

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