India, June 20 -- Researchers recently exposed the largest data breach, leaking 16 billion login credentials, passwords, and sensitive data from major online platforms.

A team of cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews, led by Vilius Petkauskas, has been investigating this leak since early 2025 and found a huge set of stolen data-potentially affecting just about every major online service, Forbes reported.

The investigation team found 30 separate data dumps, each containing anywhere from tens of millions to over 3.5 billion records. In total, Petkauskas hasconfirmed, the number of compromised records has now hit 16 billion

The leaked data appears to be the result of various infostealer malware attacks - malicious software designed to qu...