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Over 700M email addresses were recently compromised. Was yours one of them?

Security researchers discovered a doozy of a spam list this week — over 711 million email addresses on it in total. That means it’s time to check your security again. A Paris-based researcher called Benkow uncovered the spambot, called “Onliner.” It uses a tiny, pixel-sized images hidden in spam emails to gather details about recipient’s computers. Security expert Troy Hunt says the list contains a “mind-boggling amount of data.” What makes Onliner part
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