After the hacker attack on politicians and other prominent people in early January has dominated the headlines, the media now report on a huge password collection for about 773 million online accounts available in the Internet. To give orientation help to its users, the GWDG has presented its view on the discovered worldwide data leak “Collection #1” in form of a FAQ collection, which is intended to answer the most important questions on the topic.

More information (only in German): PDF file (State: 23.01.2019) and current website