16B passwords from Apple, Facebook, Google and more leaked

16B passwords from Apple, Facebook, Google and more leaked(the-independent.com)

16 points by rakibtg 332 days ago | 4 comments

johnnypangs 331 days ago |

Seems like there is more context on this that this article misses: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/security/no-16-billion-pass...

trod1234 331 days ago |

This is the natural consequence of what happens when you fail to enforce security liability on device manufacturers. Two+ decades of insecure IOT devices network connected that enable this type of collection, and other bad bad things.

Executor 332 days ago |

Plaintext or hashes?

free_bip 332 days ago | |

According to the original source (linked in the article), the credentials are plaintext from infostealing malware, not centralized breaches.