No, this wasn’t a data breach and hackers weren’t involved, at least not in the way that you might think. They didn’t break into Google or Meta’s systems or steal your data from the inside. Instead, this new data leak involved a massive collection of stolen passwords accumulated by info-stealing malware.
According to a new report from ExpressVPN, cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler recently discovered an exposed database online that contained approximately 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords across 96GB of raw data. These stolen credentials also came with links that point back to which service or platform they’re used to access.
