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This has to be the largest leak of personal information yet, right?

• O__________O 4y ago
  A lot of the press is saying it is, but unclear since “entries” is as vague as the “records” in this 1.2 billion leak: https://www.wired.com/story/billion-records-exposed-online/ https://www.wired.com/story/billion-records-exposed-online/ Appears this leak is a single dataset — one I linked to is multiple datasets.
• nicce 4y ago
  Facebook leaked much more couple years ago. Somehow everyone has forget that. Some example news: https://www.privacyaffairs.com/facebook-data-sold-on-hacker-forum/ https://www.privacyaffairs.com/facebook-data-sold-on-hacker-...
  • jsnell 4y ago
    That was not a data leak. It was a compilation of scraped, publicly available data.
    • hansel_der 4y ago
      private data was publicized without consent, a leak indeed.