"Thousands of US Congress Emails Exposed to Takeover"

Following the discovery that thousands of US Congress staffers could be vulnerable to account hijacking and phishing, security experts have repeatedly warned against using work email addresses to sign up for third-party sites. The secure mail provider Proton collaborated with Constella Intelligence to search the dark web for over 16,000 publicly available email addresses associated with congressional staff. About 3,191 employees' emails were leaked to the dark web following third-party data breaches, with 1,848 listed together with plaintext passwords. This article continues to discuss the exposure of thousands of US Congress emails to takeover.

Infosecurity Magazine reports "Thousands of US Congress Emails Exposed to Takeover"

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