Ask HN: How are you responding to the 16B credential leak?
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/
Comments
I’m not. I’ve long been assuming my credentials are lost somewhere out there.
Accounts I care about have two factor auth.
It’s an aggregate of previous breaches. Response should be good password hygiene and strong MFA.
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
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.