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The FBI is working with data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to help notify people and businesses if their accounts were affected by the Emotet botnet, the site reports.
Earlier this year, law enforcement officials around the world conducted an operation to seize control of Emotet s infrastructure. Following the takedown, the FBI contacted HIBP to see whether the service might be an effective means of alerting affected individuals and companies, according to a blog post by HIBP creator Troy Hunt.
As part of this collaboration, the FBI shared more than 4.3 million email addresses, spanning a range of countries and domains, which came from two sources of data the FBI obtained during the takedown. These include email credentials that Emotet stores for sending spam via email service providers and Web credentials from browsers that had stored them to accelerate logins. Given their remediation is similar, both have been categorized as a single breach in HIBP, H
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The FBI has shared 4.3 million email addresses stolen by the Emotet malware with the Have I Been Pwned breach notification site in another effort to remediate the effects of the devastating botnet.
The email addresses come from mail servers compromised by Emotet as well as end-user computers on which the malware had scraped credentials out of victims browsers, says Troy Hunt, an Australian computer security expert who runs HIBP.
It’s the first time the FBI has asked Hunt s service to assist in notifying victims, says Hunt, who wrote a blog post about the move.
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