Oh crap not again...
And facebook keeps fishing for new information everytime I log in. So for I work on a borg cube and my previous employer was starfleet on the dark side of the moon.
And facebook keeps fishing for new information everytime I log in. So for I work on a borg cube and my previous employer was starfleet on the dark side of the moon.
More than two million passwords from popular social media sites including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have been stolen and posted online by hackers.
The attack has been described as “fairly global” with victims “scattered all over the world”, although the vast majority of comprised users (some 96.66 per cent) were using computers with IP addresses located in the Netherlands.
Security researchers employed by Trustwave stumbled upon the hoard of stolen data whilst investigating a botnet known as ‘Pony’. Botnets are networks of hacked computers created by criminal gangs to use for a number of illegal tasks online, although it’s thought that these passwords were stolen using keylogger software.
A previous attack using the Pony botnet was described by the researchers as “hit-and-run operation,” whilst this attack was carried out over a number of weeks with the hackers taking in a “fairly stable and consistent” number of passwords each day.
The attack has been described as “fairly global” with victims “scattered all over the world”, although the vast majority of comprised users (some 96.66 per cent) were using computers with IP addresses located in the Netherlands.
Security researchers employed by Trustwave stumbled upon the hoard of stolen data whilst investigating a botnet known as ‘Pony’. Botnets are networks of hacked computers created by criminal gangs to use for a number of illegal tasks online, although it’s thought that these passwords were stolen using keylogger software.
A previous attack using the Pony botnet was described by the researchers as “hit-and-run operation,” whilst this attack was carried out over a number of weeks with the hackers taking in a “fairly stable and consistent” number of passwords each day.
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