LARGEST LIST IN THE HISTORY: If your email address is in this list, change to an emergency password

Computer experts have found a gigantic spam list with more than 710 million e-mail addresses and personal information associated with them

The list of e-mails was stolen by Onliner, which is actually a spambot.

A Parisian security researcher named Benkow first discovered the list.

It contains two separate types of data: one contains email addresses, on the other actually contains passwords and addresses.

This e-mail address is the biggest list in the history of the spambots, experts say.

With the constant development and changing of Internet privacy, there is still the possibility that your emails will be publicly shared with their passwords.

Government entities, institutional entities, corporate powers, and cyber criminals have also stepped up efforts to make it possible to steal personal information on the Internet or spy on people.

You could look at this and say that we are at the edge of the abyss to discover a lot of personal information with many different places: this is an inevitable consequence of control.

Check and see if your email is in the list, visit haveibeenpwned.com - an anti-hacker site led by Troy Hunt, an Australian Computer Security Specialist. His site has details about hacked e-mail addresses and passwords that have leaked.

If your email is in the list, you should probably change your password if you do not completely quit using that email. It would also be wise to change your other passwords if they match the passwords in your email.

Additionally, watch suspicious emails marked as "invoices" (invoice, invoice) in your mailbox: they can be filled with malware designed to steal your bank account information.

Onliner spambot pointed to the IP address in the Netherlands, indicating that the list of emails was published from the web server in that country.

You can check your email at haveibeenpwned.com.

• 8 Sep, 2017
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