16 billion passwords leak online in massive data dump with data from Google, Facebook, Apple, and more

[WYP]

It may not be from a new data breach, but a package containing 16 billion login credentials has started circulating online.​

Read more about this record-breaking data dump.

 

[Dicehunter]

Already read the original article and the original poster is quite misleading, It's a new package of information but the vast majority of information is from past leaks, It's just been all packaged into 1 and a new sticker slapped on to it.

This is from someone who is in the scene -

It's common for Threat Actors to take collections of compromised websites and assemble them into packages. There are many packages available.

The thing CyberNews discussed was a new "pack" which contains 16,000,000,000 records. This is true, a new "package" does exist. However, like all previous packages, all of the credentials present are from previous compromises or Information Stealer logs. All are publicly available and can found in various places if you dig enough.

If you wanted to download a giant list of hacked website databases, would you want to download all of them individually? Or 200 in 1 giant file? Congratulations, you now understand packages.