16 billion passwords leak: Bad news has come out for 16 billion people running Google, Apple and Facebook accounts. Which has made it clear that 16 billion passwords and login credential data of many other companies including Apple, Facebook, Google have been stolen. This is the biggest leak of database in the world, even before the incident occurred, claiming more than 18.4 crore passwords leaked. According to reports, it is believed that this work is of a big group. Please tell that at this time 30 datasets have been leaked. Each of these has more than 3.5 billion records. Along with this, Wilius Petcoscus of Cybens said that the number of leaked passwords and login credentials has reached 16 billion. It consists of social media, VPN, developer portal and account.
Who is responsible for this?
According to the report, several infoseller malware is being told for a large -scale password leaks responsible for this incident. Password theft is not common, because people may face many dangers. Due to this, Google has advised billions of users to change the password of their account, making their data safe.
This is how leaked passwords
According to Vilius Petkauskas of Cybens, around 30 datasets were leaked, each containing more than 3.5 billion records. The figure has reached 16 billion right now, it has all social media and search engines site available, such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Telegram, Githab and other government agencies, passwords have been crashed.
Take care of these things
Seeing this incident, you should also be careful, you should change the password of your account immediately. After changing the password, you should also turn on the two step verification feature for the account, so that no one will be able to login your account. You should use passkeys to make the account strong instead of the password.
