The largest password breach in digital history just detonated. Sixteen billion login credentials have been exposed. Not recycled. Not stale. Fresh. Weaponizable. That’s the word cybersecurity researchers are using. The leak includes access to Apple, Google, Facebook, Telegram, GitHub, VPNs, and even government portals. This isn’t a drill. This is a blueprint for mass exploitation.
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A record 16 billion passwords, including for Apple, Facebook, and Google, have been leaked in the largest data breach ever confirmed: Forbes pic.twitter.com/Rgwv4DuocB— The Tatva (@thetatvaindia) June 19, 2025
Cybernews researchers uncovered 30 datasets. Each one packed with tens of millions to over 3.5 billion records. These weren’t floating around for years. They surfaced briefly. Long enough to be scraped. Not long enough to trace. The fingerprints point to infostealers. Malware designed to quietly siphon credentials from browsers, apps, and devices. The kind of malware that doesn’t ask for permission. It just takes.
The numbers are staggering. One dataset alone held 3.5 billion records. The total haul? Sixteen billion usernames and passwords. That’s more than double the number of global internet users. The leak includes login tokens and cookies. That means attackers can bypass two-factor authentication in some cases. Not just logins. Full session hijacks. The kind that lets someone walk into your account like they own it.
Google has already issued alerts. So has the FBI. The warning is blunt. Change your passwords. Use a password manager. Enable two-factor authentication. Don’t click links in suspicious texts. This isn’t about paranoia. It’s about math. At this scale, even a one percent success rate means millions of compromised accounts.
The breach is global. One of the largest datasets appears to target Portuguese-speaking users. Brazil is the likely source. But the rest are scattered. No single country is safe. No platform is untouched. The leak includes credentials for everything from social media to banking to encrypted messaging apps. If you’ve logged in online this year, assume you’re exposed.
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