Posts Tagged ‘russian hacker

LinkedIn confirms stolen account passwords

- June 6th, 2012

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If you haven’t changed your LinkedIn password recently, now you might just have to. Reports had surfaced earlier that a file containing 6.5 million encrypted passwords have been leaked and posted on a Russian hacker site, might be from LinkedIn accounts and many of those have already been cracked. As it turns out, they were.

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Hacker selling Facebook accounts

- May 3rd, 2010

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Facebook is taking action on the accounts of users who have been victim to the cyberattacks by a Russian hacker. The hacker calls himself Kirllos, and has posted an ad to sell account details of 1.5 million Facebook users — both usernames and passwords.

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