New research from risk prevention specialist Digital Shadows finds there are more than 15 billion sets of usernames and passwords in circulation in cybercriminal marketplaces -- the equivalent of more than two for every person on the planet.
The number of stolen and exposed credentials has risen 300 percent from 2018 as the result of more than 100,000 separate breaches. Of these, more than 5 billion were assessed as 'unique' -- that is not advertised more than once on criminal forums.
