What You Need to Do in the Wake of Russian Hackers' Massive Data Breach

After an 18-month investigation, a U.S. security firm recently uncovered what's being called the largest security breach in recent history, conducted by a group of Russia-based hackers.



While Minneapolis-based Hold Security discovered that hacker group CyberVor stole 1.2 billion username and password combinations, along with more than 500 million email addresses, the details surrounding the breakdown are a bit unclear: According to Forbes, it's possible that the passwords could have been old data pulled from a previous hack and not a new, undiscovered breach.

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