Internet users change passwords: 16 billion exposed data

Internet users have been instructed to change passwords and improve their digital security, as researchers have claimed to have discovered a high scale of information about 16 billion access data (login) potentially accessible to cybercriminals.

Researchers in “Cybernews” has said they have found 30 data sets filled with credentials collected by suspicious software known as “infostealers”.

Researchers have added that the data was available only briefly, but it did not know exactly how many people's accounts were exposed, reported The Guardian.

“Cybernews” said credentials can provide access to services involving Facebook, Apple and Google.

Experts have stressed that regularly update passwords and take stronger security measures as a form of authenticity through some factors to open the account ʹ or combine a password with another form of verification, such as a code coming as a message on the phone./Periscopi/