Thousands of US Congress Emails Exposed to Takeover
Secure mail provider Proton teamed up with Constella Intelligence to search on the dark web for over 16,000 publicly available email addresses associated with congressional staff. It found that 3191 staff had their emails leaked to the dark web after third-party data breaches, with 1848 of these listed alongside plaintext passwords. A larger number (2975) had passwords exposed, although they weren’t stored in plaintext for all to see.