<ul><li>Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a publicly exposed database containing 184,162,718 unique logins and passwords, amounting to over 47GB of data.</li><li>The database included emails, usernames, passwords, and more for services like Microsoft, Meta, Snapchat, and Roblox, as well as logins for bank accounts, health platforms, and government portals from multiple countries.</li><li>Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice to the hosting provider as he couldn't verify the owner's identity, which led to the database being restricted from public access.</li><li>The leaked data was confirmed authentic by contacting email addresses listed, with concerns that it might have been gathered by infostealer malware, emphasizing the need for users to delete old emails containing sensitive information.</li></ul>

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