India, June 24 -- Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) has issued a fresh advisory asking people to follow good cybersecurity hygiene following reports of a massive data breach involving 16 billion online credentials.

The breach, first reported by the website Cybernews, includes usernames, passwords, authentication tokens, and metadata leaked from platforms such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Telegram, GitHub, and several VPN services.

"This appears to be a consolidated dataset, and some of the credentials may be outdated or already changed. However, we're issuing the advisory to urge people to follow good cybersecurity hygiene," a senior official at Cert-In, the country's nodal agency for cybersecurity incident response, said...