Over 5.3 million passwords exposed on the dark web in three months

Vlad Macovei

14 Aug 2020 / 5 Min Read

After the company launched a dark web fraud protection platform back in April 2020, 1 million customers have signed up to use the free add-on. According to the credit platform, users from Birmingham are the most likely to experience a data breach, with the average resident having nine breaches on the dark web.

Customers from Liverpool are the least likely to suffer from a security breach, with the average person only having five pieces of data stolen. ClearScore has identified 440,000 actions that would protect against data breaches, but only a third (143,000) have acted on their security breaches.

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Vlad Macovei

14 Aug 2020 / 5 Min Read

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