New Delhi, June 23 -- On 19 June, a report by cybercrime and data breach reporting platformCybernews said that a collection of 30 live databases was found with information stolen from individuals around the world-collecting what was claimed as 16 billion passwords and their corresponding credentials. The details reportedly belonged to users who had accounts on the most popular online services-Apple, Facebook, Google and others. Has the breach in question really put most users of the internet at risk? Perhaps not-Mint explains why.

Cybersecurity researchers thatMint spoke with said that the breaches in question were not strictly new or a single consolidated breach, as early reports had claimed. Instead, the new databases are more like mas...