There’s nothing a cyber criminal likes more than highly publicized events, sudden fear and a sense of urgency. And so last week’s headlines that 16 billion passwords leaked in the “largest ever data breach” hit the jackpot. That it “opened access” to Apple and Google accounts, the most prized of all, just made it all the sweeter.

The fact there’s no new data breach impacting Google or Apple or Microsoft or Facebook is beside the point. This is an amalgamation of various breaches, collecting data from multiple sources including infostealers on PCs. But users reading the headlines will not realize and will understandably panic. Click here to read the full text article