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LinkedIn hacker selling over 100 million user logins on the dark web

on May 18, 2016 | 0 comments

By Tony Connelly

LinkedIn‘s 2012 data breach has come back to haunt it amid reports that a hacker is currently selling more than 100 million logins to the site.

The stolen ID’s are understood to have been taken in the 2012 cyber-crime attack which resulted in 6.5 million encrypted passwords from the site being posted on a Russian crime forum.

However it appears that this was just the tip of the iceberg. According to news site Motherboard a Russian hacker, who goes by the name ‘Peace’, is selling 117 million email and password combinations on the dark web marketplace for five Bitcoins or Read full story ›

Source: The Drum