16B accounts exposed in one of the largest data breaches in history

by ericzawoon 6/19/2025, 4:39 PMwith 4 comments

by duxupon 6/19/2025, 4:45 PM

It used to be that I wasn't surprised when my password app would tell me an account is compromised.

Now I'm surprised, often. Accounts with good generated passwords I get warnings about.

Not that that vendor or site ever tells me they were hacked, but it's one of those cases where I can't imagine how else it ended up on a list somewhere ...

by apbyteson 6/19/2025, 5:12 PM

Not plain-text I hope. Was this extracted directly from providers? Given the fact that people reuse passwords, it should be easy to construct a larger db theoretically. But this number is mind-boggling.

by alexey-salminon 6/19/2025, 4:54 PM

I wanted to ask if it's already available at haveibeenpwned but it only lists 14B records as of today