Spambot leaks more than 700m email addresses in huge data breach

Millions of passwords also contained in breach, a result of spammers collecting information in attempt to break in to users' email accounts

More than 700m email addresses, as well as a number of passwords, have leaked publicly thanks to a misconfigured spambot, in one of the largest data breaches ever.

The number of real humans' contact details contained in the dump is likely to be lower, however, due to the number of fake, malformed and repeated email addresses contained in the dataset, according to data breach experts.