16 billion credentials exposed: why your business needs a password manager now
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Feed Name: The Register (Security)
Date Published: 2025-08-28
Date Updated: 2026-04-26
Author: Eirik Salmi, cybersecurity system analyst, Passwork
This article describes massive credential exposures in mid-2025—including an alleged 184 million-record database and separate reporting of billions of credentials—attributing the thefts to infostealer malware and an industrialized criminal marketplace that rapidly commoditizes and trades harvested logins; it also outlines the scale, pricing, and speed of the credential trade and promotes enterprise password management as a mitigation.
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