1.2 billion user names & passwords and 500 million meades are stolen by hackers

ByStavos

Russian criminal organizations stealed huge Internet login information including 1.2 million user name and password combinations and 500 million mail addresses,Hold SecurityIt became clear by examination of.

YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED! - Hold Security
http://www.holdsecurity.com/news/cybervor-breach/


Russian Hackers Steal Passwords of Billion Users - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-said-to-amass-more-than-a-billion-stolen-internet-credentials.html

According to Hold Security, the victim was a website with more than 420,000 people, from famous sites to small and unnamed ones. Although it is not disclosed which company it is and which site it is, the combination of user name and password 1.2 billion cases and the mail address 500 million cases were stolen by the Russian hacker group and passed to the criminal .

Hold SecurityInformation leakage of Adobe users in 2013A company with a track record of tracking down. The New York Times has asked security experts to analyze the data of Hold Security, and it is behind the fact that it is reliable information.

Hold Security founder Alex Holden said "Hackers areFortune 500It targets from a big company like ranking in to a very small website. The security of most websites is fragile. " Mr. Holden announced survey data on hacking in order to inform of the danger because there are many small websites that can not be contacted and that the damage range is enormous.


Also in December 2013Target a major Eastern European retail storeThere were also incidents involving hackers stealing 40 million credit card numbers, 70 million address and phone numbers, etc.GartnerAvivah Litan, an analyst, warns, "Companies relying on user names and passwords must change the situation with a sense of urgency."

Hackers are gaining profit by breaking into SNS such as Twitter from login information, collecting personal information and spreading spam. Unauthorized use of credit cards can be dealt with by stopping the card, but personal information that can not be changed immediately, such as e-mail address, address, social security number, seems to be more useful than selling off to hackers.

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From April 2014 Russian hackers are accelerating their activities. They are vastBotnetBy using a user infected by a virus by the visit to the websiteSQL injectionWe are testing the strength of security by.

Relationship between hacking and security is in a state of wiggle, American think tankRand Research InstituteAccording to the researcher, "Attacker's attack power surely exceeds the security defense strength", so to use the web service, even on the user side "Do not divert similar passwordsIt is necessary to thorough measures such as measures.