Hey tricksalpha users....
As per latest news The world came to know about massive data
breaches in some of the most popular social media
websites including LinkedIn, MySpace , Tumblr ,
Fling, and VK.com when an unknown Russian
hacker published the data dumps for sale on the
underground black marketplace.
However, these are only data breaches that have
been publicly disclosed by the hacker.
I wonder how much more stolen data sets this
Russian, or other hackers are holding that have
yet to be released.
The answer is still unknown, but the same hacker
is now claiming another major data breach, this
time, in Twitter.
Login credentials of more than 32 Million Twitter
Users are now being sold on the dark web
marketplace for 10 Bitcoins (over $5,800).
LeakedSource, a search engine site that indexes
leaked login credentials from data breaches,
noted in a blog post that it received a copy of the
Twitter database from Tessa88, the same alias
used by the hacker who provided it hacked data
from Russian social network VK.com last week.
The database includes usernames, email
addresses, sometimes second email addresses, and
plain-text passwords for more than 32 Million
Twitter accounts.
Twitter strongly denied the claims by saying that
"these usernames and credentials were not
obtained by a Twitter data breach " – their
"systems have not been breached ," but
LeakedSource believed that the data leak was the
result of malware.
"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,"
LeakedSource wrote in its blog post.
But, do you remember how Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg Twitter account was compromised?
The hackers obtained Zuck's account credentials
from the recent LinkedIn data breach , then broke
his SHA1-hashed password string, tried on his
several social media accounts and successfully
hacked Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest
account.
The hacker might just have published already
leaked data from other sites and services as a
new hack against Twitter that actually never
happened.
Whatever the reason is, the fact remain that
hackers may have had their hands on your
personal data, including your online credentials.
So, it’s high time you changed your passwords for
all social media sites as well as other online sites
if you are using the same password.
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