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Databases get dumped, well, not all the time, but fairly often. See haveibeenpwned for example, they post a new breach once a week, if not more often [0]. [0]
by Etheryte 3y ago
Databases get dumped, well, not all the time, but fairly often. See haveibeenpwned for example, they post a new breach once a week, if not more often [0].
[0] https://feeds.feedburner.com/HaveIBeenPwnedLatestBreaches https://feeds.feedburner.com/HaveIBeenPwnedLatestBreaches
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoHIBP even is basically tip of the iceberg in terms of how much data is floating around - Troy and his team only get the ones that are publicly leaked, or privately shared with them. They also have historically had a backlog of data to process - leaked databases can be a pain to parse and turn into something usable.