: Attackers use the personal data found in these breaches to craft highly convincing, targeted phishing emails. 4. Defensive Strategies
: For information on how torrents are used for legitimate research (as a counterpoint), see Academic Torrents .
: Collection #1 was a set of email addresses and passwords totaling roughly 2.7 billion records (773 million unique emails).
: Mention services like Have I Been Pwned which allow users to check if their data was included in this specific torrent.
