16 Billion Exposed Passwords Give Hackers Blueprint to Drain
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A massive wave of compromised credentials is now surfacing from the dark corners of the internet, threatening billions of users across major platforms with real-time exploitation risks.
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A recent data breach has exposed over 16 billion login credentials from online platforms, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Telegram, and GitHub.
The Cybernews research team, which uncovered the leak, described it as one of the largest credential dumps ever recorded, with serious implications for online users, crypto security, and digital asset management.
16B Login Records Leaked in Alarming Wave of Fresh Malware-Based Breaches.
According to researchers, the breach is not a single incident but a combination of datasets collected from infostealer malware, credential stuffing attacks, and previously unreported leaks.
Some of these datasets contained up to 3.5 billion entries on their own, with the average dataset holding around 550 million records. The researchers have been tracking the data since early 2024, uncovering at least 30 exposed sets, many of them never publicly disclosed before.
“This is not just a leak—it’s a blueprint for mass exploitation,” the Cybernews...
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