Sixteen billion passwords to Apple, Facebook, Google, and other social media accounts, as well as government services, were leaked in what researchers are calling the largest data breach ever, according to reports.
The leak exposed 16 billion login credentials and passwords, prompting both Google to tell billions of users to change their passwords and the FBI to warn Americans against opening suspicious links in SMS messages, according to a report published Thursday in Forbes.
Researchers at Cybernews, who have been investigating the leak, found "30 exposed datasets containing from tens of millions to over 3.5 billion records each."
All but one of these datasets have not been previously reported as being exposed, so the data impacted is all considered new.
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