32 million Twitter accounts have been hacked, and the login credentials of these accounts are being sold on the deep web.
Quote:LeakedSource, a site with a search engine of leaked login credentials, said in a blog post that it received a copy of the user information from “Tessa88@exploit.im,” the same alias used by the person who gave it hacked data from Russian social network VK last week.
Other major security compromises which have hit the news recently include a Myspace hack that involved over 360 million accounts, possibly making it the largest one ever, and the leak of 100 million LinkedIn passwords stolen in 2012.
LeakedSource says the cache of Twitter data contains 32,888,300 records, including email addresses, usernames, and passwords. LeakedSource has added the information to its search engine, which is paid but lets people remove leaked information for free.
Or you could just change all your passwords, if you still can. You might want to use something original.
The most popular password, showing up 120,417 times, was “123456,” while “password” appears 17,471 times.
Some people deny that these are new hacks...but would you still take that risk?
Have they hacked celebrity accounts or do they only target smaller accounts with less followers? I would think celebrity accounts would be the main target.
