FBI Shares 4.3 Million EMail Addresses Obtained During Emotet Takedown With HaveIBeenPwned

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The FBI has provided HaveIBeenPwned (HIBP) 4,324,770 email addresses it obtained in partnership with the Dutch National High Technical Crimes Unit (NHTCU), German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), and other international law enforcement agencies during the take-down of the Emotet gang’s infrastructure.

The addresses come from two different corpora of data: Email credentials stored by Emotet for sending spam via victims' mail providers and web credentials harvested from browsers that stored them to expedite subsequent logins. Subscribers to the HIBP service that were impacted by the Emotet breach have already been alerted. (Troy Hunt / Troy Hunt’s Blog)

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