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16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now (www.forbes.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/technology@piefed.social

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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are there any genuine articles on this? I assume forbes is just clickbait

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't seen anything on this one specifically, but if it's anything like the previous releases of this size, it's just a compilation of a bunch of older releases, not billions of new passwords.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

That's the thing, the article says it's all new:

The 16 billion strong leak, housed in a number ion supermassive datasets, includes billions of login credentials from social media, VPNs, developer portals and user accounts for all the major vendors. Remarkably, I am told that none of these datasets have been reported as leaked previously, this is all new data. Well, almost none: the 184 million password database I mentioned at the start of the article is the only exception.

but the autistics on Mastodon aren't going wild about this so I feel safe assuming it's Forbes clickbait