- Researchers found 30 databases housing 16 billion records online
- The records were most likely generated by infostealers
- Records come from a wide range of providers, from Apple to Google and many more
Security researchers have reported discovering what could be the mother of all data breaches – a set of 30 databases containing a total of 16 billion records.
These records were most likely generated by various cybercriminals (and possibly white hat hackers or researchers) using different infostealing malware, a new report from Cybernews claims.
The researchers note the databases differed in size – from “smaller” ones containing just millions of entries, to gigantic ones housing billions of records, with accounts from Google, Apple, to various VPN services, GitHub, Telegram, and more – and of the 30 discovered datasets, just one had been previously reported by the media, a “mysterious” database with 184 million records.