India, May 28 -- A cybersecurity researcher claimed to have found a publicly exposed database containing 184,162,718 unique login and password credentials, totalling a massive 47.42 GB of raw data.

The researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, reported his findings to Websiteplanet.com last week and claimed that the database hosting critical data was itself not protected by a password.

Fowler claimed that he saw "thousands of files that included emails, usernames, passwords, and the URL links to the login or authorisation for the accounts." The database reportedly contained login credentials of numerous applications and services, including email providers, Microsoft, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Roblox and many other websites.

The researcher clai...