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16 Billion Passwords Just Leaked – Change Yours NOW!
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Jun 20, 2025
A jaw-dropping new data breach has just exposed 16 billion passwords and login credentials, including those for Google, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, and more. This isn’t recycled data—it’s a fresh, massive leak discovered by Cybernews and confirmed by Google and the FBI. Here’s what you need to do right now: 1- Change your Google password 2- Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) or switch to passkeys 3- Use Google Password Checkup or similar tools to verify if your credentials were compromised Don’t wait—hackers could use this data for phishing, account takeovers, identity theft, and business email compromise. Hit play to get a breakdown of the breach, expert security tips, and step-by-step guidance to safeguard your digital life.
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16 billion passwords to Apple Facebook
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Google and other social media accounts
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as well as government services were
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leaked in what researchers are calling
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the largest data breach ever according
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to reports the leak exposed 16 billion
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login credentials and passwords
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prompting both Google to tell billions
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of users to change their passwords and
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the FBI to warn Americans against
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opening suspicious links in SMS messages
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according to a report published Thursday
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in Forbes researchers at Cyber News who
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have been investigating the leak found
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quote 30 exposed data sets containing
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from tens of millions to over 3 and a
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half billion records each all but one of
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these data sets have not been previously
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reported as being exposed so the data
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impacted is all considered new quote
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"This is not just a leak it's a
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blueprint for mass exploitation," the
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researchers said and they are right
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these credentials are ground zero for
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fishing attacks and account takeover
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quote "These aren't just old breaches
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being recycled," they warned "this is
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fresh weaponizable intelligence at
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scale." So like I said these are some
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pretty important and big companies that
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have been affected including Google who
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by the way is the gateway for your
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YouTube account as well so since this is
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I guess affecting Google it is probably
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going without a little bit of saying
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here that you should be changing your
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passwords and I don't mean just change
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one of your account passwords you should
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probably be changing basically every
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password that you have and I know that
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most of you honestly are using like the
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same one or two passwords you're not
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even like bringing in new or harder to
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crack passwords a lot of you are just
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using you know password one two three or
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your birthday so yeah you probably
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should be changing your passwords and I
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know a lot of you oh but what's going to
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happen if my accounts are hacked or
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accessed well there is a pretty big
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amount of caution to be had with a lot
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of these different things now with a lot
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of these data breaches and I'm not
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saying this one in particular I'm just
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saying in the grand scheme of things
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because this is a growing phenomena
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where it seems like every other month
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now there's some massive exploitation
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some new data set hits the dark web your
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information is exposed in a new way
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we're at a point where a lot of people
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just don't care or they don't even
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realize what's being leaked but in some
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of these cyber security incidents it's
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not just passwords now this one here in
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particular seems to be like user data
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like passwords or whatever that has been
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leaked for all these different platforms
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but in some of these other breaches and
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data thefts and whatnot right there is
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more sensible information that is stolen
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for instance in some cyber attacks and
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ransomware attacks and whatnot people
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can have their names home addresses
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social security numbers phone numbers
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personal information other things like
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this leaked in these dark web database
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leaks right so it is one of these things
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where yeah you know oh you might think
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it's just your password or whatever but
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for a lot of you you also have to
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remember I know a lot of you probably
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use the same password for like your bank
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account that you use for other [ __ ] you
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got to think most people have no
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password etiquette they don't really go
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out of their way to make creative
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passwords so these kinds of things can
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affect a lot of people in pretty
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negative pretty shitty ways right and
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the issue is this isn't even like a
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limited thing this is a pretty massive
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breach 16 billion login credentials i
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mean you can just assume that basically
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everybody using the internet had their
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information involved in this in some way
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or another i mean if it's not literally
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basically everybody it's got to be like
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a pretty massive portion most of that
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intelligence was in the format of a URL
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followed by loginins and passwords that
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information then allowed access to quote
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pretty much any online service
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imaginable from Apple Facebook and
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Google to GitHub Telegram and various
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government services while worrisome the
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researchers found that the data sets
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were exposed very briefly with enough
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time for them to be discovered but not
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long enough for researchers to figure
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out who was controlling the data
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researchers have determined the leak is
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the work of multiple info steelers but
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it's impossible to tell how many people
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or accounts were exposed according to
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Cyber News the experts urge people to
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invest in password management solutions
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not share their passwords and to stay
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alert in the event their passwords are
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compromised all right so obviously
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they're right now probably trying to
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figure out the full extent of what
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exactly is going on here i mean this is
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a pretty massive situation it is like I
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said the biggest password breach in
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history up until this point and it seems
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like only a few months ago we were
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talking about the new largest cyber
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attack that had ever taken place in fact
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it seems like every couple of weeks or
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something this headlight this headline
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is coming up so we're kind of at this
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point where everybody is I think
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becoming more aware of these kinds of
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situations i mean I'm sure most of you
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watching this video probably have your
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spam notifications on your text messages
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turned off at this point because if you
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don't you're going to have unknown
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numbers calling you texting you saying
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"Oh we're the USPS your parcel couldn't
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be delivered." Or they're saying "Oh
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we're the DMV here's your license info
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amazon failed the delivery for your
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package." And it's always some spam link
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where if you click it it's going to try
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and harvest information from you it's
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going to try and get your information
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for your account and it's basically
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going to steal your [ __ ] right so it's
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not like this is some one-off thing that
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only a few people deal with i think
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we're kind of all at the point where
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this is a daily nuisance for everybody
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watching this so if you're one of the
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people who are somehow avoiding dealing
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with this kind of stuff you must be one
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of the luckiest people on the planet i
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genuinely envy the fact that you do not
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deal with this now what does this mean
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going forward well obviously uh I once
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again think this goes without saying
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this is basically just the way life is
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now you know and it sucks to say that
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because you would think that with these
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big companies they invest so much money
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into like their networks into their
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security into their entire like I guess
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structure of their business you would
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think that you would be more protected
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from these kinds of things but the truth
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is these cyber crimes and the cyber
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criminals carrying them out have gotten
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so sophisticated at this point in time i
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mean they've had decades now basically
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to kind of build up these strategies
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that they're employing and build up this
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ransomware wave that they've been doing
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you know just building up all these
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different strategies to steal people's
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information and make money off of it
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right so more people than ever are using
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the internet more people than ever are
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signing up for things and more people
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than ever have all these different
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accounts they don't know how to manage
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which means that you know these old
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outdated accounts that get left for
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years you know you breach the website
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you have a password like I said most
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people use the same password you get one
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password you can break five of their
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other accounts if you play your cards
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right and that's for like the average
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internet user so that's probably why in
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the last few years you've heard so much
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more about you know oh you need a
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password manager oh don't click susp
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suspicious links all these different
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things skins when you're playing you
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know video games on other platforms same
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thing you're worried about people
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stealing your account your Google
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account you're worried about people
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hacking apple worried about people
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hacking Microsoft worried about people
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hacking every company everything your
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bank you know your PayPal everything
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that you use online it has gotten to the
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point where you're constantly worrying
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[ __ ] am I using some breached password
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am I recycling my bank password is this
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password strong enough right all for 3
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months later you have to refresh the
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cycle that way you don't get your [ __ ]
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leaked in a new breach right well
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obviously the right thing to do is
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constantly update your passwords that
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helps protect you in instances like this
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but also at the same time you have to be
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kind of I guess aware of what's going on
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because like I said I feel like this is
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not being reported as much as it should
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be right because I get a lot of these 16
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million data records or whatever that
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were leaked they're probably duplicates
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same person different accounts or
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whatever right but at the same time even
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if like a fraction of these accounts are
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in a position where they're vulnerable
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or whatever I feel like a lot of these
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people probably have no idea that this
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[ __ ] is even going on in the first place
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so if there's not some sort of like
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widespread messaging to let people know
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hey your passwords are vulnerable they
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have been accessed possibly you should
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probably be resetting all of your
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sensitive passwords and things like that
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that's the kind of way that we can
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really combat this because they always
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talk about every year oh the cyber crime
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has reached a new peak in terms of money
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that it's stolen from the world yet of
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course it's going to continue to steal
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money and siphon resources from people
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and make all of this money in illicit
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ways if people are blind to what's going
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on they have no idea that their accounts
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are even vulnerable in the first place
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most people are not tech illiterate
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that's the reality of the situation you
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would think that because we've had
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computers for like 30 years now and
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internet access for 30 years now in the
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average household in America you would
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think that people would know this stuff
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you would think that people got it back
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in like 1997 oh I should change my
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password but that's not the case people
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today are still once again password two
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first name 123 [ __ ] like that right it's
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the easy memorable go-to password
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everybody does it and that's the problem
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because when [ __ ] like this happens next
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thing you know you're locked out of your
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$2,000 Steam wallet because your
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password was breached you can't get into
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your email cuz your Google has been
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completely stolen these are the kinds of
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things you want to avoid nobody wants to
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go through this [ __ ] right so the
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problem is we're going to keep going
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through it and I don't think there's
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ever going to be a point where we're
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really mentally free from this [ __ ]
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especially with like artificial
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intelligence and stuff coming up you
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know you hear all the time "Oh it's
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going to make everything so much safer."
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Sure it might but it's like the same
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thing we're dealing with now there's all
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these researchers there's all these
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programs that people are constantly
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improving trying to prevent attacks like
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this but the criminals are also
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intelligent they're also growing and
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increasing their capabilities it's a
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tugofwar and it's always going to be
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there's going to be a point where yeah
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artificial intelligence may crack the
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code for two years and then next thing
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you know they they'll fight back it's
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how it always goes but the thing is with
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our lives increasingly becoming more and
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more digitized all of our financial
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systems becoming more and more digitized
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we're getting to a point where when
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people lose their [ __ ] in data breaches
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it's significant [ __ ] it's no longer
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just a password to an account for a lot
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of people you know this might be their
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work email or this might be an account
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where they have 500 of their photos
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backed up on things like that there's
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always uses for these accounts and
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there's the same thing with criminals i
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mean they have uses for hacking your
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account too they have uses for getting
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all of this information and selling it
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