When Cybernews published an article about a 16 billion credentials leak, some of us strongly criticized the article as irresponsible and misleading journalism. Although some people have tried to suggest that the Cybernews article had some value in highlighting infostealers, the article was so riddled with falsehoods and misleading statements that the confusion and misunderstandings it created outweighs any benefit one might try to ascribe to it.

To his credit, @JayeLTee and a colleague have taken the time to analyze the datasets used in Cybernews‘ reporting and to fact-check their reporting with actual data and proof from their own research.

He has now written up their findings, in which they identified no less than five significant false claims by Cybernews. You can read his report here:

https://jltee.substack.com/p/fact-checking-claims-by-cybernews

#journalism #dataleak #databreach #infostealers

All the misspelled news that's fit to print.

So WaPo blockheads are making blockquotes?

Anyway, Sumpre Fi!