'Collection # 2-5', new list of 2.200 million emails and their passwords, filtered

A new email leak called 'Collection # 2-5' has been published, affecting more than 2.200 billion email accounts.

February begins and begins with a great scandal at the security level. A few weeks ago a major data breach was revealed called 'Collection # 1'. That leak contained over 773 million email accounts with their corresponding passwords. A major leak that is a major problem and was the largest in history. This has remained a joke if we compare it with the new leak 'Collection # 2-5'

New massive email and password leak

Now researchers at the Hasser Platter Institute in Potsdam in Germany have reported 2.200 billion affected users. They have found that approximately 2.200 billion users and passwords have been leaked online by various online services. To give us an idea, this database has a weight of 845GB and we can download it from a large number of web pages and even through torrent files.

The e-mail addresses that have been leaked come from computer attacks carried out on different websites for many years. Yahoo, LinkedIn, Adobe or Dropbox are some of the websites that have suffered security breaches from which this data has been stolen. All the data has been compiled and added to a file.

To find out if you are one of those affected, you can go to the 'Have I Been Pwned?' Web page, where by entering your address it will tell you if your email is affected. If our email account has not been filtered, the screen will appear in green. If it is in red, it will tell us where the leak comes from, the date and what data has been filtered.

Whether or not you are on this list, we recommend a good security policy. Change the password periodically and whenever possible add the verification in two steps, to avoid access to your email by malicious users.

Source: Wired