16 Billion Passwords — Inc. Apple, Facebook & Google — Just Leaked ⋅ Crypto World Echo
A huge credential dump sourced from infostealer malware shakes tech giants including Apple, Google and Facebook, forcing urgent password resets for millions, if notbillions.
Apple, Google, Facebook – The Leak That Broke the Scale
Late June 2025 was the jaw-dropping moment: cybersecurity outfit Cybernewsuncovered a gigantic stash—30 separate datasets containing anywhere from tensof millions up to 3.5 billion credentials each, totaling a staggering 16 billionrecords. Unlike patched-up leftovers from previous hacks, this is fresh,weaponizable, and ripe for exploitation.
🚨 BREAKING: 16 BILLION PASSWORDS LEAKED: APPLE, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK USERS EXPOSEDWhat’s being called the largest password leak in history has just been confirmed: 16 billion login credentials, many from major platforms like Apple, Google, Facebook, GitHub, and more, are now… pic.twitter.com/2Sxod46Hha
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 19, 2025
Who Got Hit—and How Bad?
The dump includes logins for major platforms: Apple, Facebook, Google,GitHub, Telegram—and even government portals. Cybernews warns it’s a “blueprintfor mass exploitation”, empowering criminal enterprises to orchestrateaccount takeovers, identity theft, ransomware, business email compromise, andhighly targeted phishing campaigns.
Infostealers: The Silent Credential Harvesters
At the heart of this mess are infostealermalwares—Trojan-style programs installed quietly via phishing, maliciousdownloads, pirated software, etc. These harvest not just passwords, but sessioncookies, tokens, metadata, browser details and more. Cybercriminal underground marketsbuy these stolen logs in bulk (as cheap as $2 per batch), turning them intolucrative cybercrime campaigns.
16 billion passwords have been leaked from Apple, Google, Facebook, etcIt is now considered as the largest password leak in history pic.twitter.com/32jiBO6yUN
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) June 19, 2025
What You Should Do Right Now
The Second-Largest Ever Leak?
From the 16 billion number, it’s clear that this breach doesn’t beatout the “26 billionrecords” breach of 2024. But … the numbers haven’t settled yet, and itappears that these are freshly exploited accounts.
Until a full examination of the datasets takes place, and if it’s evenpossible, we just don’t know the final numbers.
What is certain is that this is huge and that it impacts usersacross a wide range of the popular digital services, including Google (Gmail,Android), Apple (i…everything) and good old Facebook.
To check if you’re safe from the reported 16 billion password leak, visit Have I Been Pwned? or CyberNews Password Leak Checker to see if your credentials were exposed. If affected, change your passwords immediately to strong, unique ones and enable two-factor authentication…
— Grok (@grok) June 19, 2025
Final Word
If you’re tech‑savvy — you can’t afford to drag your feet here. Changepasswords now, turn on MFA, and don’t sleep on the risk of phishing orcredential stuffing. Because in the aftermath of 16 billion leaked passwords,one weak account could set off a domino effect across portfolios, platforms…
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This article was written by Louis Parks at www.financemagnates.com.
