Hackers Stole 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday May 30, 2016 @02:00AM from the security-woes dept.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, reporting for Motherboard: On May 12, Tumblr revealed that it had found out about a 2013 data breach affecting 'a set of users' email addresses and passwords, but the company refused to reveal how many users were affected. As it turns out, that number is 65 million, according to an independent analysis of the data. Troy Hunt, a security researcher who maintains the data breach awareness portal Have I Been Pwned, recently obtained a copy of the stolen data set. Hunt told Motherboard that the data contained 65,469,298 unique emails and passwords. Update: 05/30 16:36 GMT by M : An earlier version of the original report claimed that data of 68 million accounts were compromised. It's 65 million. The original story, and hence, this summary has been updated to reflect the same.

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It could be worse.... by Anonymous Coward · 2016-05-30 02:30 · Score: 0, Interesting

Instead of passwords, it could be encryption keys held in escrow due to some politicians requiring backdoors into encrypted system....
I'm wondering how long before Microsoft loses all those Windows disk encryption keys it's been backing up to its servers, or Google losses its Android encryption keys it also has been 'backing up' to its servers. Or Emperor Trump decides his government will help itself to.