Billions of Passwords Have Been Leaked in Massive Breach, Researchers Say. Here’s What You Should Know

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More than 16 billion login credentials have been leaked, researchers said this week, in what they believe to be one of the largest data breaches ever. According to researchers at Cybernews , who announced the alarming number this week as part of an ongoing investigation that began at the start of the year, the information in the exposed datasets “opens the doors to pretty much any online service imaginable, from Apple, Facebook, and Google, to GitHub, Telegram, and various government services.”

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