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On a scale of one to 10, the 2012 LinkedIn breach of 6.5 million user credentials rated, say, a five. But what if the real number of affected users was 167,370,910, including the email and banking details of more than 117 million users? That is a 10 out of 10!

There are stories of hackers hitting the motherlode offering millions of logins - usernames and passwords - for email and social media. But often they are just consolidated lists already on the dark web. Not this time!