Canadian man charged with running and collecting $200K from LeakedSource, a site that sold access to a database of ~3B compromised account passwords
Alastair Sharp / Reuters :
LeakedSource, a site that sold access to a database of 3.1B+ compromised account passwords, taken offline after alleged police raid
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
LeakedSource, a site that sold access to a database of 3.1B+ compromised account passwords, taken offline after alleged police raid
LeakedSource garnered criticism for actively cracking the passwords it sold. — LeakedSource, a legally and ethically questionable website that sold access …
FriendFinder Networks, operator of AdultFriendFinder.com, Cams.com, other sites hacked; 412M accounts exposed; LeakedSource could crack 99% of all passwords
Almost every account password was cracked, thanks to the company's poor security practices. Even “deleted” accounts were found in the breach.
In the 2012 Last.fm hack, details of 43.57M accounts were stolen; 96% of hashed passwords were able to be cracked within 2 hours
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Time confirms Myspace breach limited to a portion of login data created before June 11, 2013; LeakedSource says over 360M accounts compromised
You might not have thought of - much less visited - Myspace in years. (Yes, it's still around. Time, Inc. acquired itand other properties when it bought Viant earlier this year.)
Hacker behind LinkedIn's 117M e-mail database claims to have 360M Myspace user emails with passwords
MySpace was hacked. LeakedSource has obtained … AJ Dellinger / The Daily Dot : MySpace may have been hacked and never told its users about it Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : Hacker Tries To Sell 427 Million ...