Russian hackers grab 1.2billion passwords

By : Forum Member
Published 6th August 2014 |
Read latest comment - 6th August 2014

A gang of Russian hackers have pulled off the biggest hack to date of 1.2bn user names and passwords from 420,000 websites.

Details of the websites are yet to be announced but are reported to be some big household names.

In a twist to the story, the company that traced the breach of security initially posted a charge to companies to check to see if they had been hacked but this has since been removed.

I think there are going to be some pretty red faces of big company names admitting soon that they have been hacked.

Certainly makes me rethink about my online security and passwords!


Clive
Comments

It's just hack after hack....   After years of trying to convince us all that eCommerce is safe, we seem to be moving into a state of chaos.

Sony, Microsoft, Banks, High Street Chains, all have had their databases hacked.

I don't trust any firm to look after my credit card details, and is exactly why we send our customers to a payment gateway rather than holding details ourselves.

Google led the way with two stage authentication, and it should now be mandatory on any site that you have to enter sensitive information on, IMHO 


Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
My Local Services | Me on LinkedIn

This Thread is now closed for comments