Someone is selling 33 million Twitter passwords on the dark web
Twitter's account hacking woes aren't about to end any time soon.
Days after a number of prominent Twitter accounts got hacked — including those belonging to musicians Katy Perry and Drake as well as Twitter co-founder Evan Williams — nearly 33 million Twitter usernames and passwords are being sold online.
According to Leaked Source..
a site that collects databases of stolen
login credentials for a number of sites, the 32,880,300 Twitter
credentials are being sold by a person identified by the alias Tessa88.
Zdnet reported
that the price Tessa88 is asking for the entire database (which
allegedly contains 379 million records, but likely has many duplicates)
is 10 bitcoins, or about $5,800 at the time of writing.
Each record consists of one or two email addresses, username and password, but what's
odd about this leak is that the passwords aren't encrypted at all.
While this is bad news for users whose credentials are now available
online (Leaked source says it checked the authenticity of the passwords
with 15 users, all of which confirmed they were genuine), this indicates
that they were not obtained by hacking Twitter or a third-party site.
"The
explanation for this is that tens of millions of people have become
infected by malware, and the malware sent every saved username and
password from browsers like Chrome and Firefox back to the hackers from
all websites including Twitter," Leaked source wrote in a blog post Wednesday.
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