Stolen 32 million Twitter accounts, also of Italian users – The Republic

OTHER Zuckerberg. After the case which saw mr Facebook protagonist of hacking on four social platforms in one fell swoop (LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter), are now as many as 32 million accounts at risk and this time only on Twitter. Thus, in cases of passwords stolen years ago in LinkedIn and MySpace and recently put into online sales, you add a new episode that could throw the bird into turmoil users.

According LeakedSource it concerns the very 32,888,300 passwords that a Russian hacker would sell on the deep web. A hoard of stolen account to microblog and even belonging to Italian, entered into the digital black market for proceeds of approximately $ 6,000. Profiles ” turnkey ”, given that the passwords were stolen by infecting PCs from which they were typed. The blog devoted to security also reveals that you have obtained the information from Tessa88@exploit.im, aliased to that used last week for violating the Russian social network VK.

The hacking victims mass this time are mostly Russian domains, but from the list of e-mails stolen they also appear two Italians: libero.it (just over 60,000) and hotmail.it (48,000). At the top of the most frequently encountered are domains mail.ru (5 million), yahoo.com (4.7 million), hotmail.com (4.5 million) and also gmail.com (3.3 million).

Twitter with a bird explained that it is checking its database in the light of recent cases of stolen passwords and Michael Coates , responsible for security, said that the platform has not been violated. Among the accounts for sale there is to Mark Zuckerberg , exposed a few days ago.

LeakedSource explains that the credentials of users do not come from an attack on Twitter but have been stolen directly to users, infecting with computer virus programs used to navigate online, such as Firefox or Chrome. The analysis of the password shows that poor people’s creativity is the basis of theft so widespread and frequent. Most of the stolen passwords fact reflects the most used in the world, and therefore less safe, “123456″ and the very word “password.” And these few days after a Facebook issue was slapped for using multiple services the same basic password: ” dadada ”.

Topics:

password

hacking

hacker

LinkedId

Twitter

Starring:

Michael Coates

mark zuckerberg