Another daytime , another paper that your societal - media password could now be for sale on the dour vane : a hackerclaims to be selling32 million Twitter log - ins . Twitter , on the other handwriting , says it was n’t even hacked and that the data likely comes from other leaks and hoi polloi using the same parole for everything .
LeakedSourceclaims to have received the Twitter information from the same drug user , Tessa88 , who gave it hacked data from a Russian social - media site originally . Tessa88 isselling the cache for about 10 bitcoin , or or so $ 5,820 .
A Twitter official tweeted about the hack and is “ sure-footed ” that Twitter ’s system were n’t infract , which is sort of comforting , but at last useless if indeed someone out there is about to corrupt our word anyway and it ’s all because we also apply the same one for LinkedIn . The log - ins probably came from malware on Firefox and Chrome instead of being taken directly from Twitter , according to LeakedSource , which , again , does n’t help much if your parole is among the one up for sales agreement .
We have investigated reports of Twitter usernames / passwords on the non-white web , and we ’re confident that our organization have not been offend .
— Michael Coates ( @_mwc)June 9 , 2016
Any of this sound familiar ? Clearly , Mark Zuckerberg is n’t the only soul who ’s beentaken down by spoilt countersign certificate , and just last week Myspace said thatit’d been hackedand the security entropy for everyone ’s defunct web site was up on the dark web .
With prominent leaks furnish password ( and yes , the most popular ace in today ’s case were ‘ 123456′ and ‘ password ’ ) for multiple sites , it seems like “ cut up ” is easier than ever now . In the late causa , there was n’t even any need to break encryption . Wait long enough , and it ’s only a matter of prison term before enough thwartwise - referencing between leaks just does the trick .
[ TechCrunch ]
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