India, May 6 -- A newly discovered mega-database containing 19 billion compromised passwords has been uncovered online, sparking concerns among cybersecurity experts worldwide. The scale of the leak-believed to be the largest password dump in history-poses a serious threat to personal privacy, enterprise systems, and national cybersecurity, as reported by Forbes.

This compilation appears to consolidate credentials from thousands of previous breaches over the past two decades. Unlike raw breach data, this leak is refined and indexed, making it easily usable by threat actors for automated credential stuffing attacks. These attacks test username-password combinations across websites and platforms, seeking to exploit reused or weak credentia...