{"id":216348,"date":"2025-06-21T06:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach"},"modified":"2025-06-21T06:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:14:07","slug":"no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach","title":{"rendered":"No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>News broke today about \u201cone of the largest data breaches in history,\u201d sparking wide media coverage filled with warnings and fear-mongering. However, it appears to just be a compilation of previously leaked credentials stolen by infostealers, exposed in data breaches, and via credential stuffing attacks.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, this is not a new data breach, or a breach at all, and the websites involved were not recently compromised to steal these credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, these stolen credentials were likely circulating for some time, if not for years. It was then collected by a cybersecurity firm, researchers, or threat actors and repackaged into a database that was exposed on the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News broke today about \u201cone of the largest data breaches in history,\u201d sparking wide media coverage filled with warnings and fear-mongering. However, it appears to just be a compilation of previously leaked credentials stolen by infostealers, exposed in data breaches, and via credential stuffing attacks. To be clear, this is not a new data breach, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}