26B Record Leak: Dropbox, LinkedIn, Twitter All Named

forbes.com

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"The supermassive data leak, or mother of all breaches as the researchers refer to it, is likely the biggest found to date."

If it is a marathon, there will be more eventually.

"If there is good news to be found in such a discovery, it is that little of this appears to be new data. Instead, the researchers say, it’s more a case of compiled records from thousands of previous breaches and data leaks."

If the issue with SSNs, credit cards, etc. would somehow be solved, even big ones like this would not probably matter that much.

Do you think this is like a tip of the iceberg situation? Disclosed leaks (massive as they are here) are still 10% of what's actually compromised?

> Disclosed leaks (massive as they are here) are still 10%

A very good question! Might be less than 10%, actually, wouldn't you think? If you know Mr. Troy, drop him a message; I'd like to know his opinion, as I haven't seen academic papers estimating these things.

Then, a further question is that as data keeps and keeps accumulating, bigger and bigger and bigger and faster and faster and faster, more and more and more will leak in the future, including more and more sensitive (read: non-personal) data.

EDIT: less, not more, sorry for the inconvenience.

If most of the web is non-indexable then you're probably your math makes sense :)

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