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FortiBleed leak exposes Fortinet VPN credentials for 73,000 devices.

A newly discovered data leak dubbed "FortiBleed" has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs at organizations worldwide.

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A newly discovered data leak dubbed "FortiBleed" has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs at organizations worldwide. The exposed data was first discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko, who says he found a server containing what appeared to be valid Fortinet VPN credentials, including usernames, email addresses, and plaintext passwords.

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