{"id":940472,"date":"2025-06-21T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940472"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:07:54","slug":"16-billion-passwords-leaked-in-a-massive-data-breach-what-you-need-to-know-to-protect-your-facebook-instagram-gmail-and-other-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/21\/16-billion-passwords-leaked-in-a-massive-data-breach-what-you-need-to-know-to-protect-your-facebook-instagram-gmail-and-other-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"16 billion passwords leaked in a massive data breach: What you need to know to protect your Facebook, Instagram, Gmail and other accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers have uncovered an unprecedented data breach involving 16 billion login credentials across 30 databases, potentially affecting users of major platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Gmail, Apple, and countless other services. The discovery, made by CyberNews researchers during an ongoing investigation since January 2025, represents what could be the largest credential leak in history.<\/p>\n<p>The massive trove of stolen data was briefly accessible through unsecured databases before being locked down, though researchers were unable to identify the owners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers have uncovered an unprecedented data breach involving 16 billion login credentials across 30 databases, potentially affecting users of major platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Gmail, Apple, and countless other services. The discovery, made by CyberNews researchers during an ongoing investigation since January 2025, represents what could be the largest credential leak in history. The massive trove of stolen data was briefly accessible through unsecured databases before being locked down, though researchers were unable to identify the owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}