{"id":19219,"date":"2025-06-22T07:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T05:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/internet-users-advised-to-change-passwords-after-16bn-logins-exposed\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T07:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T05:37:30","slug":"internet-users-advised-to-change-passwords-after-16bn-logins-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/internet-users-advised-to-change-passwords-after-16bn-logins-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hacked credentials could give cybercriminals access to Facebook, Meta and Google accounts among others<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/jun\/04\/what-to-do-if-your-email-account-is-stolen-and-how-to-stop-it-happening-again\">What to do if your email account is stolen \u2013 and how to stop it happening again<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Internet users have been told to change their passwords and upgrade their digital security after researchers claimed to have revealed the scale of sensitive information \u2013 16bn login records \u2013 potentially available to cybercriminals.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Cybernews, an <a href=\"https:\/\/cybernews.com\/security\/billions-credentials-exposed-infostealers-data-leak\/\">online tech publication<\/a>, said they had found 30 datasets stuffed with credentials harvested from malicious software known as \u201cinfostealers\u201d and leaks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/21\/internet-users-advised-to-change-passwords-after-16bn-logins-exposed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6a7b8b4e74e67dd34f2a93f775050d0f7e3529b3\/574_0_3559_2847\/master\/3559.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f2f1087c1c44d4a5a77a346745ffe21b\" title=\"Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed\" \/>Hacked credentials could give cybercriminals access to Facebook, Meta and Google accounts among others<br \/>\nWhat to do if your email account is stolen \u2013 and how to stop it happening again<br \/>\nInternet users have been told to change their passwords and upgrade their digital security after researchers claimed to have revealed the scale of sensitive information \u2013 16bn login records \u2013 potentially available to cybercriminals.<br \/>\nResearchers at Cybernews, an online tech publication, said they had found 30 datasets stuffed with credentials harvested from malicious software known as \u201cinfostealers\u201d and leaks. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacked credentials could give cybercriminals access to Facebook, Meta and Google accounts among others What to do if your email account is stolen \u2013 and how to stop it happening again Internet users have been told to change their passwords and upgrade their digital security after researchers claimed to have revealed the scale of sensitive &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/internet-users-advised-to-change-passwords-after-16bn-logins-exposed\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}