An FYI for Australians seeing this "news" item from the ABC
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-21/google-apple-facebook-passwords-caught-in-cyber-breach/105445072
Perhaps read this one as well.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach/
For context, someone had alerted me to a Forbes article about this yesterday but it struck me as dubious.
Time will tell as reality gets sorted out, but disappointing to see such lax reposting by the ABC.
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