Your email and password were probably posted online in the mother of all data leaks

[Andy Meek]

• Hackers recently posted more than 3 billion user credentials online as part of a massive data breach compilation of emails and passwords.
• Read on for a way to check and see if your email and password combination was part of this published trove.
• If they were, there are also some easy steps you can take to protect yourself.

We're barely over a month into 2021, and already hackers have been hard at work this year racking up one massive data breach and systems intrusion after another. National headlines were generated in recent days, for example, upon word that a hacker used Teamviewer to try to poison the water supply of a Florida town. And just a few days ago, we reported on what might be the biggest-ever compilation of hacked user credentials ever posted on the Internet before.

Dubbed the “Compilation of Many Breaches," or COMB, this data set includes 3.2 billion email-and-password combinations posted online. It's not the result of a new hack -- rather, these are credentials that had been stolen as part of previous breaches and leaks from companies like Netflix and LinkedIn. The size of this published data set, though, means at least one thing: At least some of your data is almost certainly caught up in this trove. But there's good news, too.

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