The 16 billion password leak: What really happened?
In June 2025, cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews uncovered one of the most significant credential leaks ever recorded: More than 16 billion login details compiled into roughly 30 massive data sets were freely circulating online.
Rather than a single catastrophic breach, this was the accumulation of years’ worth of infostealer malware silently infecting devices, scraping everything from passwords and cookies to active session tokens and web…

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