India, July 9 -- In what is being considered one of the largest and most concerning cybersecurity exposures in recent memory, researchers found a staggering 16 billion login credentials circulating on online.

This included username, passwords, and or authenticated /session data from organizations ranging from tech titans Google and Facebook to governmental, enterprise, and even VPN services.

Initial public responses suggested no small degree of panic; however, the cyber security community worked quickly to clarify the situation: this is not a breach in the classic sense; but more of collection of stolen data from over a long stretch of time that was all placed together in one spot.

Researchers at Cybernews uncovered that these 16 billi...