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9,050,064,764 credentials have been recovered throughout 2019 which came from a total of 640 unique data breaches and include email addresses connected to plaintext passwords and usernames with plaintext passwords, SpyCloud reveals.
That means, on average, each of these data breaches gave criminals more than 14 million sets of login credentials. Because people often reuse passwords across several accounts, both personal and for work, each set of login credentials could be used to access dozens or more accounts through which cybercriminals can perpetrate fraud.