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A cybersecurity researcher just discovered a treasure trove of leaked accounts: More than 184 million logins were readily available online, with Google, Meta, and Apple users affected

A cybersecurity researcher has uncovered a mysterious, publicly accessible database containing millions of login credentials from services including Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. The publicly exposed database was not password-protected or encrypted, and contained more than 184 million unique logins and passwords, adding up to 47.42GB of raw credential data. The data included emails, usernames, passwords, and the URL links to…