Ask HN: How are you responding to the 16B credential leak?

3 points by rajkumarsekar a month ago

Cybernews uncovered a record-breaking leak involving 16 billion unique login records from services like Google, Apple, Facebook, GitHub, and more.

How are you responding to this?

If you haven’t heard about it yet, here’s the full article: https://cybernews.com/security/billions-credentials-exposed-infostealers-data-leak/

throwawaysleep a month ago

I’m not. I’ve long been assuming my credentials are lost somewhere out there.

Accounts I care about have two factor auth.

toomuchtodo a month ago

It’s an aggregate of previous breaches. Response should be good password hygiene and strong MFA.

baobun a month ago

It's hard to keep up shooting it down and I seem to be getting grumpier with it. All: Your collective cooperation in striving for truthband doing our own research is appreciated.

OP: What's your motivation for bringing up this particular "news" at this particular time? Did you not read the comments in any of the recent threads?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44370373

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323089

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44370149

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322288

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44322822

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325070

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325026

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44318192

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320636

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44316114

  • rajkumarsekar a month ago

    Thanks for sharing those links, I hadn’t seen all of them. I posted because I found the scale of the 16B figure surprising and thought it might be useful for others who hadn’t dug into it yet. Not trying to push hype, just genuinely curious how others are thinking about credential safety with so many breaches stacking up.