New Delhi, June 19 -- In what is being described as one of the most extensive data breaches ever uncovered, security researchers have identified a colossal collection of exposed data comprising more than 16 billion individual records.

According to a recent investigation byCybernews, the leaked information was spread across 30 distinct databases, each believed to have been compiled using various infostealer malware strains. These malicious tools, often employed by cybercriminals and sometimes by ethical hackers for research purposes, are capable of siphoning sensitive user data from infected devices.

The scale of the leak is staggering. While some datasets were relatively smaller, containing only a few million records, others held billio...