Looks like it's time to change your passwords, again: security experts have flagged up a monster data breach made up of some 773 million email addresses and 21 million passwords.

They're calling it Collection #1, and more collections are reportedly on the way.

First made public by security consultant Troy Hunt, the data dump comes from multiple different sources – perhaps more than 2,000 – and amounts to 87GB of data in all.

To make matters worse, the passwords are in plain text and easily readable.

The package was spotted being hawked around for sale among hacker communities, and could be used for credential stuffing – a technique where bad actors try multiple email address and password combinations on as many different apps and services as they can.

"People take lists like these that contain our email addresses and passwords then they attempt to see where else they work," says Hunt.

"The success of this approach is ...

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