Cyber ​​security researchers have revealed what they call “mother of all violations”. They discovered a collection of 30 databases containing more than 16 billion individual files, including passwords, government accounts, Apple, Google, Facebook, Telegram and other popular sites and services, according to the Daily Mail.

Some of the data sets had vague names such as “connection” or “credentials”, which made it difficult for the research team to understand exactly what they contained. However, they gave indications of the origin of the data. According to the researchers, the files were probably gathered by cybercrime using various malicious information theft programs, although they noted that some data may also have been collected from hackers called “white hats”.

The files found a research team from Cybernews. Researchers say the personal data they found was available on the broader internet for a short time before being “locked” and it was not possible to determine who the databases belonged to.

With more than 5.5 billion people worldwide using the internet, the researchers warned that a large number of people are likely to have fallen victim to their personal data.

They are now urging users around the world to immediately change their passwords to protect their data.

According to the same sources, in addition to changing the code, a very good action that you can now activate to activate two -factor authentication, which adds another level of security to the connection, receiving a secure code on your phone or email.

According to the Daily Mail, looking at only a small sample of 10,000, out of the “stolen” accounts, 220 email addresses with domains .gov were found, linking them to more than 29 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, China, China, China, China, China, India.

Cyberspace has warned that this particular violation is also a significant risk to national security as it could allow access to sensitive or even highly secret systems.