UK top 500 legal firm credentials leaked on the Dark Web
Researchers have discovered file dumps in the Dark Web containing close to 1.2 million email addresses and credentials from the UK's top law firms.
On Monday, cybersecurity firm RepKnight released a whitepaper detailing the research. In total, 1,159,687 email addresses were found in the dumps and 80 percent of the addresses were connected to leaked passwords. To make matters worse, the passwords were often stored in plaintext.
The information dumps, discovered by the team in both the Internet's underbelly and on paste sites, represents an average of 2,000 compromised credentials per company.
