The network got 16 billion passwords from Apple and Google accounts.

Cybernews specialists discovered a data leak that resulted in about 16 billion logins and passwords being publicly available. This was reported by Forbes magazine on June 19.

"Researchers have just confirmed what is by far the largest data breach in history: an almost incredible 16 billion login credentials have been exposed," the publication said.

As specified by "Gazeta.Ru", the merged archive consists of account data from online services Apple, Google, Facebook (owned by Meta, whose activities are recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation), Telegram messenger, VPN services and government platforms.

Key Decoupling: Hackers have intensified password-matching attacks

Most of the criminals worked from the USA, China and Russia.

Earlier in the day, Ashot Oganesyan, founder of the DLBI darknet leak intelligence and monitoring service, told Izvestia that hackers are massively switching from vulnerability detection to password selection during attacks. According to the expert, the fight against this type of attacks is conducted using two-factor authentication, as well as specialized password verification services.