US EditionRoughly 16 Billion Passwords Have Leaked Online, Including From Google, Facebook and Apple
- Researchers at Cybernews recently discovered 30 exposed datasets online containing roughly 16 billion leaked passwords from various sources, including Google, Facebook, and Apple.
- The breach results from multiple events, likely involving infostealer malware, credential stuffing, and repackaged leaks, with the exact source and current holders of the data unknown.
- These stolen credentials provide criminals with unparalleled opportunities to hijack user accounts, impersonate individuals, and conduct sophisticated phishing attacks, targeting major platforms and government services without implicating direct breaches within those organizations.
- Experts recommend immediately changing passwords, avoiding reuse across sites, enabling multifactor authentication, using strong encrypted password managers, and adopting passkeys as stronger authentication.
- This incident highlights the increasing frequency of large data breaches and stresses maintaining cyber hygiene to mitigate risks as investigations continue and more datasets are discovered.
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This Massive Data Breach Shows Why We Need to Kill the Password Once and for All
Passwords are a staple of both the internet and computing at large. Even as new authentication protocols have emerged—from passkeys to biometrics—most of us use passwords to log into our daily accounts and websites using a code made up of letters, numbers, and symbols.The problem is, the password was really a product of its time, and doesn't really belong in the modern digital age. Cybersecurity threats have evolved so far beyond the capability …
A historical leak of data compromised more than 16 billion user combinations and passwords belonging to services such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Telegram and various government platforms.The warning was made by the specialized Cybernews portal, whose researchers rated the incident as the largest recorded to date.What should be disconnected first, the charger or the cell phone?This is said by expertsThe data exposed were obtained from 30 differe…
From Facebook to Apple: almost every account has been compromised!
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