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By the end of next week, the database held 1,230,703,487 records, and continued to grow since.

The complete dataset is likely to contain duplicates, but that may be by design.

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There is no information about the actors behind the database, and the researchers are making no assumptions.

The discovered data was likely obtained illegally and is possibly intended to be used for illegal purposes.

The data likely belongs to an individual threat actor or a group of individuals, Cybernews said.

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