The file was left entirely unprotected - no encryption, no password, no safeguards - just a plain text document holding millions of sensitive data entries.

More than 16 billion login credentials for Google, Facebook, Apple and other platforms have been exposed in one of the largest cybersecurity data breaches of all time, according to a Cybernews report.

An urgent warning has been issued to people with online accounts to change their passwords now after the “largest data breach in history”. Cybersecurity experts at Cybernews found that 16 million passwords have been breached across 30 different databases, meaning your accounts might not be secure.