{"id":944240,"date":"2025-07-07T07:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944240"},"modified":"2025-07-07T07:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T02:08:11","slug":"from-instagram-to-bank-accounts-16-billion-passwords-leaked-in-silent-cyber-breach-govt-issues-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/from-instagram-to-bank-accounts-16-billion-passwords-leaked-in-silent-cyber-breach-govt-issues-advisory\/","title":{"rendered":"From Instagram to bank accounts: 16 billion passwords leaked in silent cyber breach, govt issues advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine starting your day only to discover that every password you have ever used, from your Instagram to your bank account, is now floating around on the dark web. Sounds like a tech nightmare, right? But for millions, it might already be a chilling reality. Experts are calling it the biggest data breach in internet history. Over 16 billion login credentials have been leaked. And this isn\u2019t outdated, recycled info. It\u2019s fresh, organised and harvested using advanced infostealer malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine starting your day only to discover that every password you have ever used, from your Instagram to your bank account, is now floating around on the dark web. Sounds like a tech nightmare, right? But for millions, it might already be a chilling reality. Experts are calling it the biggest data breach in internet history. Over 16 billion login credentials have been leaked. And this isn\u2019t outdated, recycled info. It\u2019s fresh, organised and harvested using advanced infostealer malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944240","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}