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The ‘16 billion password breach’ story is a farce
Experts told CyberScoop the research 'doesn’t pass a sniff test' and detracts from needed conversations around credential abuse and information stealers.
Supposed experts and mainstream media have spent the past few days hyperventilating over reports of a colossal data breach that exposed more than 16 billion credentials — a level of theft that should have defenders clutching their pearls. This cache of around 16 billion credentials reflects around 30 separate databases, stealer logs compiled over years — lots of overlap, much of it old,” said Christiaan Beek, senior director of threat analytics at Rapid7. The hasty communications trap What has made the situation even more damaging is that many cybersecurity companies responded to the story as a marketing opportunity for their products or a chance to insert executive commentary into the news cycle.
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