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23andMe Lost 6.9 Million Records to a Credential Stuffing Attack In October 2023, genetic testing company 23andMe confirmed that threat actors had compromised roughly 14,000 accounts using stolen credentials from other breaches. Because of the platform's social sharing features, that initial foothold gave attackers access to
23 Billion Stolen Credentials Are Already For Sale In January 2023, cybersecurity researchers at Digital Shadows reported over 24.6 billion stolen username-and-password pairs circulating on dark web marketplaces. That's roughly three credentials for every person on Earth. And every single one of them is a loaded weapon
23 Billion Stolen Credentials Are Circulating Right Now In 2020, Digital Shadows found more than 15 billion stolen credentials for sale on dark web markets — and that number has only climbed since. Every single one of those username-password pairs is ammunition for a credential stuffing attack. This isn't
In January 2024, Roku disclosed that a credential stuffing attack compromised roughly 591,000 user accounts across two separate incidents. Attackers didn't hack Roku's servers. They simply took username-and-password pairs leaked from other breaches and tried them at scale. It worked because hundreds of thousands of
