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Report Copyright Violation | Russian hacker tries selling 272 million stolen Gmail, Hotmail, and other accounts for $1 A Russian hacker harvested hundreds of millions of stolen account credentials from a number of popular email services and tried to sell them for less than $1, Reuters reports.
The anonymous hacker was spotted by researchers with Hold Security advertising his trove of accounts on a dark web forum. Analysts with Hold reached out and asked for a dataset to verify, and began negotiating. The hacker only wanted 50 rubles, or less than a buck.
"I am just getting rid of it but I won’t do it for free," the hacker purportedly wrote to the analysts. Eventually the hacker gave up the data for nothing more than social media likes and votes.
Minus duplicates of usernames and passwords, the data contained roughly 57 million accounts from Mail.ru, or more than half the number of people using Russia's leading email service. [ link to www.techinsider.io] |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Russian hacker tries selling 272 million stolen Gmail, Hotmail, and other accounts for $1 |
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05/04/2016 04:01 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Russian hacker tries selling 272 million stolen Gmail, Hotmail, and other accounts for $1 told you russians don't have any dicks |
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05/04/2016 04:07 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Russian hacker tries selling 272 million stolen Gmail, Hotmail, and other accounts for $1 Sheesh. Ya gotta think that much juicy stuff should be worth at least a fiver. |
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05/04/2016 04:09 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Russian hacker tries selling 272 million stolen Gmail, Hotmail, and other accounts for $1 he offered me 80,000 of hillarys emails but wanted 5 grand |
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05/04/2016 04:10 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Russian hacker tries selling 272 million stolen Gmail, Hotmail, and other accounts for $1 Shows you have vulnerable everything is.
You could literally get identity tucked for a Facebook like.
This world sucks and is awesome at the same time.
Bipolar. |
