Over 272 million email accounts have been hacked, with their passwords stolen and being sold on the dark web, it has been revealed by a cyber-security agency.
The accounts span large providers including Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail, and are being sold at cheap prices to criminals on the dark web.
“We know he’s a young man in central Russia who collected this information from multiple sources,” said Alex Holden, founder of Holden Security, who discovered the hack. “We don’t know the way he did it or the reason why he did it.”
The dark web is a part of the internet that remains unindexed by search engines and can only be accessed using specific web browsing tools such as Tor. It is frequently used by whistleblowers, activists in tyrannous countries, and technology professionals, but its advanced anonymity and concealment also makes it a frequent habitat for cyber-criminals including hackers, terrorists, and pedophiles.
Since the mass hack has been discovered, security professionals are advising that anyone with a personal email account immediately change their password. This includes anyone who has an account with Hotmail, Microsoft, Gmail (Google Mail), Yahoo, and Mail.ru.
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4 comments:
The internet viruses is like playing wack a mole all the time.
Nothing new...happens every day.
Hitler-y will use this as her excuse for her state department emails getting into the Russians hands.
Gee, all of the free ones.
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