16 billion customer data from Apple, Facebook and Google accounts have appeared on the web
- Customer data circulating on the web with access credentials endanger crypto wallets and customer accounts of the well-known global tech companies.
- All customers is urgently advisedto update your passwords and to activate the two-factor authentication.
A new cyber security alarm was triggered worldwide after Cybernews-web have shown that above 16 billion registration data online Gelaked. The results include details of some of the largest technology provider of the worldlike Apple, Facebook and Google.
The leaked information Were not obtained through direct hacks, but come from protocols of malware, The information stealsas well as lists for filling out registration data and reused compilations of LECKS.
The infiltrated information was unsecured in elasticsearch instances and object stores found. The infiltrated information includes URLs, user names and passwords as well as frequently also associated metadata such as session cookies and tokens and are therefore particularly susceptible to Phishing attacks and account takeovers.
What makes things worse is that such data leaks are very well organized and up -to -date. This is not outdated data remnants from old security violations, but recently added entries, which suggests a continued activity of malware groups.
Github, Telegram and even government websites become In the data quotedand it puts A dangerous scenario for those but, those to access to cryptocurrency wallets and the security of their accountsbe dependent.
Insight into the world’s largest collections of stolen registration data
Cybernews researcher examined 30 individual data records with ten million to over 3.5 billion entries. The most concerned results include one Data record With 3.5 billion entries connected to Portugal and a data record with 455 million entries associated with the Russian Federation. The average size of the data record was 550 million data records.
Also ifes Due to overlaps in the data records is difficult Exactly quantify How many different people are affected are two troubled access data for each person worldwide not at all so Abbay.
By Bob Dachenko, founder of securityDiscovery.com and cybernews author. He made it clear that there was no centralized violation at Apple, Facebook or Google.
However, the access data became In the minutes of infostealers discoveredso that People who used the same password for different websites or were affected by malware are very susceptible.
Crypto users should better protect their accounts
The crypto communities are most at risk of such a storm. Without multi-factor authentication (MFA) or Strict password hygiene can be attackable goals.
The cybernews security researcher Aras Nazarovas noted that cookies and session tokens that are stored in such dumps can handle 2FA and make damage control more difficult.
He asked the users to update their passwords immediately, 2fa to activate and The registration attempts check . Users should contact the support immediately , If you a unauthorized access notice .
As with previous data breakdown How RockYou2024 und der „Mother of All Breaches“ (MOAB) divesuch Listen usually to a larger and more malignant extent.
The unveiling of 16B passwords is another worrying trend in the activities of the cyber criminals that are From telegram channels to centralized dumps in the cloud shift and thus your attack capacity further remove .
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