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Cale Hunt

"The scale of this exposure is immense" — New study reveals the extent of data leaks and the frightening rise of digital doppelgängers

Silhouette of an adult man hacker.

It's been a bad year for data breaches so far in 2025, and we still have a couple of months to go.

Off the top of my head, I can list several severe breaches, from the 16 billion accounts leaked from Google, Facebook, and Telegram to the 70,000 Discord user IDs to the 40 billion records (many marked "confidential") discovered on an unencrypted database.

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