Data Theft century. Russian hackers suspected – BFM.Ru

came under attack as simple web users as well as large companies. However, published in the American media version of the crime raises doubts among experts

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U.S. suspects Russian hackers in the largest data theft. In billion of U.S. Internet users have been stolen usernames and passwords, as well as 500 million e-mail addresses.

For allegedly kidnapping is a group of Russian hackers, living in a small town in the south of Russia, near the border with Kazakhstan and Mongolia. These are the findings of the U.S. Hold Security, which specializes in cybersecurity. Hold Security founder Alex Holden said he did not see the connection between the hackers and the Russian government, as well as Russian sites were hacked.

CBS correspondent Jeff Pegg said that among the hacked pages are sites of large companies.

Jeff Peg

correspondent CBS

The group consists of about 12 people. All of them no more than 20 years, and their servers are also located on the territory of Russia. In this group of hackers allegedly practice division of labor: someone writes code and software, steal data, and other hack sites, and others involved in their subsequent implementation.

Computer experts do not believe this scenario. On the technical side the situation is possible that similar burglaries occur several times a year.

Doubt causes the data in the press. CEO of Group-IB Ilya Sachkov Post believes that publish information before someone is arrested, unprofessional.

Ilya Sachkov

CEO of Group-IB

Because premature reports of crime press law enforcement bodies at risk of failing to find the perpetrators, he said. “The reason stated in the press, when it is detected or vulnerability, hackers have either caught or the court is completed sentence. Otherwise, press reports that they saw, it means that they will never in my life did not get caught. And such situations was a huge amount, “- said the expert.

Experts remind that this story proves once again that use the same password for e-mail and any other resources dangerous. Especially for e-mail – most importantly, that this password does not match the password to your online banking and payment systems. Attackers obtained the password to one of your services, get access to all.