In what is billed as the biggest data breach in history, 16 billion Google user login credentials were exposed. Cybernews researchers have found Millions of login credentials in many huge files.
Beginning in early 2025, the team conducted an ongoing inquiry that led to the results. They have found 30 publicly available datasets so far, each with tens of millions to more than 3.5 billion records.
Social media, VPNs, development portals, and user accounts for all of the main suppliers are among the billions of login credentials that were compromised. The majority of the data, according to the research, had a clear format: URL, login information, and password. They said that this is precisely how the majority of contemporary infostealers—malicious software that steals private data—gather information.
Almost any online service imaginable, from Apple, Facebook, and Google, to GitHub, Telegram, and various government services,” according to researchers, was made possible by the breach.
“Cybercriminals now have unprecedented access to personal credentials that can be used for account takeover, identity theft, and highly targeted phishing,” the researchers stated, citing the disclosure of over 16 billion login data. They underlined that the fact that they aren’t merely rehashed breaches is particularly worrisome. Researchers declared, “This is new, weaponizable intelligence at scale.
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