Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated January 25 with even more analysis of the publicly ...

For seven years, password manager NordPass has released a list of the most commonly used passwords. However, when breaking down these passwords by generation, the top five passwords chosen by baby ...

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware. The ...

A publicly accessible database containing more than 149 million usernames and passwords was discovered, and before it was taken offline, it included logins from 900,000 iCloud users. The database ...

Tens of millions of online login credentials have been compromised in a massive data leak, with Gmail users facing the highest risk. The exposure was uncovered by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah ...

Email platforms such as Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook could be affected, as well as social media websites including Facebook and TikTok Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Jeremiah Fowler, a veteran security researcher, recently stumbled upon 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling about 96GB of raw data. There was no encryption… and it didn’t even have a ...

Some 48 million Gmail usernames and passwords have been leaked in a criminal database. The full database contains 149 million compromised credentials, including 17 million Facebook accounts, 6.5 ...

GMAIL users have been warned about a data leak as tens of millions of online login credentials were reportedly exposed. The largest portion of the stolen credentials allegedly came from Gmail, with ...

Login credentials linked to more than 149 million online accounts were allegedly exposed after a large database was found publicly accessible, according to a report published by ExpressVPN. The data ...

I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, and ad-blocking software. I also report on online scams and offer advice to families and individuals ...