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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Isabel Keane

16 billion passwords from Apple, Facebook, Google and more leaked. Why has no one heard of it?

Sixteen billion passwords to Apple, Facebook, Google, and other social media accounts, as well as government services, were leaked in what researchers are calling the largest data breach ever, according to reports.

The leak exposed 16 billion login credentials and passwords, prompting both Google to tell billions of users to change their passwords and the FBI to warn Americans against opening suspicious links in SMS messages, according to a report published Thursday in Forbes.

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