The 16-billion-record data breach that no one’s ever heard of \ stacker news ~security

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It's unclear what they found. They claim the breach is recent or ongoing but it's hard to confirm especially given the methodology - it sounds like they crawled and probed to find the data sets.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 6h

Ahh it reminds me of something that was similar and scarier!

Our team has been closely monitoring the web since the beginning of the year. So far, they’ve discovered 30 exposed datasets containing from tens of millions to over 3.5 billion records each. In total, the researchers uncovered an unimaginable 16 billion records.

You can see their team was closely monitoring but they didn't mention that they were the researchers.

Another article 2 weeks ago, very similar.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/more-than-4-billion-user-records-exposed-in-biggest-data-leak-ever-everything-you-need-to-know

And I've found their similar claims from last year..where they mentioned 26 billion.

https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-of-all-breaches/

Cybernews creates such clickbait articles every now and then.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 14h

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach/