Biggest data breach in recent years? Whopping 773 million unique email IDs leaked, claims a researcher
According to web security researcher Troy Hunt, this data leak is part of the "Collection #1" which is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows.
"It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources," Hunt posted on troyhunt.com on the day. Reuters