data about 100 million pages of the social network “VKontakte” hacked and posted on the black market of digital technologies. Relevant information is available in publications specializing in Computer News
According to the publication the Motherboard, hacking “VKontakte” allegedly carried out by a hacker nicknamed Peace. The stolen data he placed in the closed part of the Internet, which is used also for illicit operations, asking for her one bitcoin (about 570 dollars). Hacker argues that the data came to him more than 100 million pages.
The information stolen by cybercriminals, including logins, passwords, phone numbers and email addresses. Motherboard claims that the user “VKontakte”, which managed to contact the publication, confirmed that lined the hacker password really helps to open the page.
The publication LeakedSource, also received data from cybercriminals, has laid out an analysis of the data. In particular, it states that more than half a million users “VKontakte” used a very simple passwords such as “123456″, “123456789″, “qwerty” or “11111″. In the 52 million cases of use e-mail and Mail.ru Yandex.ru.
The report LeakedSource argues that password storage methods that use “VKontakte”, do not meet modern standards of the Internet, which led to cracking.
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