{"id":547058,"date":"2026-01-26T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/crypto-users-affected-in-massive-149m-infostealer-data-dump\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:53:12","slug":"crypto-users-affected-in-massive-149m-infostealer-data-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/crypto-users-affected-in-massive-149m-infostealer-data-dump\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto users affected in massive 149M infostealer data dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YmZhMTQtZDJiNy03Yzc1LTg4YTQtMTkxNWNhMDllNjNjLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Crypto users affected in massive 149M infostealer data dump\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A researcher uncovered a 149 million-record credential dump from infostealer malware, including 420,000 Binance logins, exposing growing risks to crypto users.<\/p>\n<p>A cybersecurity researcher has uncovered a massive, publicly accessible database containing millions of stolen login credentials harvested from malware-infected personal devices, including accounts linked to major social media platforms and the crypto exchange Binance.<\/p>\n<p>The dataset, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressvpn.com\/blog\/149m-infostealer-data-exposed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.expressvpn.com\/blog\/149m-infostealer-data-exposed\/\">uncovered<\/a> by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, contained around 149 million usernames and passwords from personal phones and computers, according to a Friday blog post published on ExpressVPN. The records were tied to services including Facebook, Instagram, Netflix and Binance, with at least 420,000 credentials associated with Binance users.<\/p>\n<p>The leak contained 48 million Gmail accounts, four million Yahoo accounts, 17 million Facebook accounts, 6.5 million Instagram accounts, 3.4 million Netflix accounts and 780,000 TikTok accounts, among others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-users-affected-149m-infostealer-data-dump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A researcher uncovered a 149 million-record credential dump from infostealer malware, including 420,000 Binance logins, exposing growing risks to crypto users. A cybersecurity researcher has uncovered a massive, publicly accessible database containing millions of stolen login credentials harvested from malware-infected personal devices, including accounts linked to major social media platforms and the crypto exchange Binance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-547058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}