It’s been a bad year for data breaches so far in 2025, and we still have a couple of months to go.

Off the top of my head, I can list several severe breaches, from the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/16-billion-accounts-in-largest-data-breach” target=”_blank” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/16-billion-accounts-in-largest-data-breach”>16 billion accounts leaked from Google, Facebook, and Telegram to the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/hackers-infiltrate-discords-id-checks-and-its-bad-news-70-000-users-personal-data-exposed” target=”_blank” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/hackers-infiltrate-discords-id-checks-and-its-bad-news-70-000-users-personal-data-exposed”> 70,000 Discord user IDs to the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/storage/13tb-40-billion-records-data-leak-netcore” target=”_blank” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/storage/13tb-40-billion-records-data-leak-netcore”>40 billion records (many marked “confidential”) discovered on an unencrypted database.

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It’s been a bad year for data breaches so far in 2025, and we still have a couple of months to go.

Off the top of my head, I can list several severe breaches, from the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/16-billion-accounts-in-largest-data-breach” target=”_blank” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/16-billion-accounts-in-largest-data-breach”>16 billion accounts leaked from Google, Facebook, and Telegram to the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/hackers-infiltrate-discords-id-checks-and-its-bad-news-70-000-users-personal-data-exposed” target=”_blank” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/hackers-infiltrate-discords-id-checks-and-its-bad-news-70-000-users-personal-data-exposed”> 70,000 Discord user IDs to the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/storage/13tb-40-billion-records-data-leak-netcore” target=”_blank” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/storage/13tb-40-billion-records-data-leak-netcore”>40 billion records (many marked “confidential”) discovered on an unencrypted database.

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