S7, E274 - Your Password Is Already For Sale
Privacy Please · Jun 29, 2026 · 20:25
Privacy Please · Jun 29, 2026 · 20:25
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Last year, every major outlet ran the same story: 16 billion passwords exposed. Apple. Google. Facebook. The largest breach in history.
It was overblown. Security experts tore it apart within 48 hours.
But here's the thing: the real story underneath that headline is actually scarier. And nobody covered it.
It's called infostealer malware. It's been quietly running on millions of devices — stealing passwords, bypassing MFA, and feeding an underground credential economy that's behind nearly every major breach of the last two years. Ticketmaster. AT&T. Coinbase. All of it traces back here.
In this episode, I dig back into that story and break down:
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Episode: Your Password Is Already For Sale
Last year, the 16 billion password story dominated headlines. The headline was overblown — but the real threat underneath it, infostealer malware, is what nobody talked about. It's an industrial-scale credential theft economy running quietly in the background, and it's the engine behind almost every major data breach of the last two years. We dug back into it because it's only gotten worse.
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