$SEI $STRAX $BMT 16 billion passwords from Apple and Google leaked online: will this affect crypto users?

According to Cybernews, hackers have released 30 new datasets containing leaked passwords. The largest of these contains information on 3.5 billion records. Analysts noted that this dataset is likely related to residents of Brazil. Another is dedicated to users from Russia — it contains about 450 million records. The dataset with Telegram data has 60 million records.

Among the leaked data are passwords from various services: social networks, banks, VPNs, and much more. According to experts, all the information is fresh. Most of it was collected using infostealers — malicious software (malware) that infiltrates computers through phishing sites or emails.

The crypto community is concerned whether seed phrases or logins for crypto exchanges have leaked. If they have, data about mass hacks of digital asset users may soon emerge. Tether's CEO Paolo Ardoino noted that the world needs to move to more reliable protection of user passwords. The issuer of the USDT stablecoin is already developing a new solution: