Hacker προσφέρει προς πώληση μια τεράστια βάση δεδομένων με 272 εκατομμύρια κωδικούς emails. Η συναλλαγή διαφημίζεται μέσα από το Dark Web and its price is about $1.
An anonymous hacker of Russian origin, coming out to Internet nicknamed “the Collector”, was tagged by company cyber security firm Hold Security, that it is selling 1,17 billion email accounts along with their passwords, of course, through a Dark Web forum.
The stolen codes apparently came from some of the world's largest e-mail service providers, including Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft and Russian Mail.ru.
When security analysts started negotiating with the hacker to verify the authenticity of these data, the Russian hacker only requested 50 rubles (less than one dollar) in exchange for the entire base.
How degrading it was, and so the company proceeded to the transaction and the acquisition of the database. After analyzing the data, Hold Hold CEO Alex Holden said that a large number of 1,17 billion codes proved to be duplicate and triple entries and that the base actually contained only 272 million unique records.
According to the report they drafted, 57 millions belong to Russia's leading provider Mail.ru, 40 millions in Yahoo accounts, 33 millions in Microsoft Hotmail accounts and 24 million Gmail accounts.
Also, of those 272 million passwords analyzed by Hold Security, about 42,5 million were new credentials that the company hadn't seen sold on the dark web before, meaning the list came from people who were still doing hacking in dianetwork.
