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16 billion passwords from your Apple, Google, Instagram, Facebook, GitHub, and Telegram accounts have hit the web, Forbes writes…

The giant data sets contain billions of logins and passwords from social networks, VPN services, developer portals, and accounts of large companies. It is noteworthy that almost all of this data has not previously appeared in known leaks - except for the database with 184 million passwords.

Time to change your password!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/06/19/16-billion-apple-facebook-google-passwords-leaked---change-yours-now/

personally, I'm picturing a mushroom cloud and waiting for the ash to settle.

nobody knows the extent to which this can be deduced into nth-order compromise.

𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖆𝖉 𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆

to be fair

@banteg rightly suggests that this could be psyops, but it's better to err on the side of precaution and also recall that many breaches have already occurred, leading to the same consequence.

ᴡɪʀᴇᴅ ꜰᴏʀ ᴡᴏɴᴅᴇʀ, ᴛʀʏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ꜱᴇɴꜱᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ . ɪ ᴀꜱᴋ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ɪ ᴄᴀʀᴇ. ɪ ᴄᴀꜱᴛ ᴛᴏ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ʟᴇꜱꜱ ᴀʟᴏɴᴇ.