Russian group of hackers stole 1.2 million accounts with passwords – Ferra

In order publications The New York Times received the information about one of the biggest online identity theft. Information was provided by the research center Hold Security, who claims that a group of Russian hackers broke into 420,000 Web and FTP-sites, stealing from them a combination of logins, passwords and email addresses. To be precise, we are talking about 542 million unique email addresses and passwords of 1.2 billion user names.

Worse still, most of the affected sites are still vulnerable, says the founder of Hold Security Alex Holden. Meanwhile she said, “some big companies” have received notice that their data had been stolen.

criminal group suspected of using the stolen information to spam on social networks. It is assumed that the team of hackers is “less than 12 people at the age of 20 years, who know each other personally».

note that a similar incident occurred on the scale of last year, when the retail chain Target announced that of its database information was stolen 40 million credit cards.