Record Cache of Stolen Credentials Indexed as Germany Faces New Crime Developments and Policy Shifts

Overview

• Security researcher Troy Hunt added a dataset to Have I Been Pwned that includes nearly two billion email addresses and about 1.3 billion passwords, with 625 million previously unknown.
• Hunt says it is the largest dataset his project has processed, stresses it is not a targeted hack of Gmail or another major provider, and notes many sampled passwords are still in active use.
• Reports say the trove aggregates credentials from years of older breaches, is already circulating for automated attacks and sales, and can be checked anonymously via Have I Been Pwned.
• Police detained a 29-year-old woman, identified in reports as Gina H., as a suspect in the killing of eight-year-old Fabian, and the child’s mother expressed both shock and relief through her lawyer.
• Berlin confirmed it will shut the Tegel reception site and shift to smaller refugee accommodations to aid integration, as investigators probe a reported group assault in Hellersdorf and Hamburg’s Altona alcohol ban shows displacement effects.