Identities Are at Risk Again; A Data Breach, Exposing 16 Billion Records
A staggering 16 billion credentials—spanning Apple, Google, and government portals—now circulate among cybercriminals, not through sophisticated exploits, but cloud misconfigurations and reused passwords. This breach reveals a hard truth: enterprise-scale data protection fails at human-scale errors.
Yet the deeper story isn’t just exposure—it’s economic inevitability. When 67% of breaches trace to misconfigured assets (Bitdefender), and credential stuffing attacks cost $6M per incident (IBM), reactive security is a financial time bomb.
