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Credential spill incidents nearly doubled since 2016

The number of annual credential spill incidents nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020. Credential stuffing, which involves the exploitation of large numbers of compromised username and/or email and password pairs, is a growing global problem. The FBI last year warned that the threat accounted for the greatest volume of security incidents against the US financial sector between 2017 and 2020 (41%) The average spill size also declined, falling from 63 million records in 2016 to 17 million last year. The 2020 median spill size (2 million records) represented a 234% increase over 2019.

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/02/11/credential-spill-incidents/

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