Ask HN: How are you responding to the 16B credential leak?
2 rajkumarsekar 4 6/27/2025, 4:42:02 AM
Cybernews uncovered a record-breaking leak involving 16 billion unique login records from services like Google, Apple, Facebook, GitHub, and more.
How are you responding to this?
If you haven’t heard about it yet, here’s the full article: https://cybernews.com/security/billions-credentials-exposed-infostealers-data-leak/
OP: What's your motivation for bringing up this particular "news" at this particular time? Did you not read the comments in any of the recent threads?
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Accounts I care about have two factor auth.