New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- A massive cybersecurity incident has been uncovered where 149 million unique logins and passwords were exposed. However, this was not part of some nefarious plan by a hacker, but a cybersecurity researcher found 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling around 96 GB of raw credential data, left completely open without password protection or encryption, making it accessible to anyone who knew where to look.

The leak was uncovered by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who shared his findings via ExpressVPN.

Fowler found that the exposed records included usernames and passwords spanning across almost every major online service imaginable. Among the affected services were social media platforms like Face...