Russian Cyber-Heist

Posted by Douglas V. Gibbs

ONLINE DATA HEIST
Report: Russian crime ring in huge Internet info grab

A Russian crime ring has got its hands on more than a billion stolen Internet credentials, according to a New York Times report.

Citing records discovered by Hold Security, the New York Times reported on Tuesday that the stolen credentials include 1.2 billion password and username combinations and more than 500 million email addresses.

Research specialist Hold Security, which has a strong track record of uncovering data breaches, says that the stolen data was gathered from 420,000 websites. Organizations affected range from household names to small Internet sites, it said.

Last October Milwaukee-based Hold Security identified the disclosure of 153 million stolen credentials from Adobe Systems.

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