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FBI is searching for hackers after 1.2 million logins were stolen
25 November 2015
FBI links hacker to 1.2 billion stolen internet credentials - the largest heist of this type.
According to the Reuters news agency the court documents submitted by the bureau in the in the last fiscal year identify the hacker as "mr.grey".
The hacker was linked with the stolen logins using the use of a Russian email address.
"mr.grey," previously advertised credentials to Twitter and Facebook accounts on sale online.
It was the American cyber security firm Hold Security that initially reported the theft of the credentials along with 500 million more email addresses in the past year.
The Russian criminal gang responsible for stealing data - dubbed CyberVor was able to hack more than 420,000 websites, according to Hold Security.
In August, the firm stated, "To the best of our knowledge, they mostly focused on stealing credentials, eventually becoming the biggest collection of stolen personal data, totalling over 1.2 billion unique sets of passwords and e-mails."
Hold Security began to market a "breach notification" service to users who were concerned about their information being compromised. The cost was $120 (PS71) per monthly.
Botnet breach
Whatever the identity of the culprit behind the CyberVor breach, the method used was a marked departure from the way botnets - massive networks of computers linked together maliciously - are typically used, according to Dave Palmer, director of technology at security firm Darktrace.
"What's fascinating about this is that botnets are often used to harness their massive size to target a specific target - like the destruction of computer games consoles during Christmas, for instance." he told the BBC.
"It's instead been used as a massive scanner scanning websites all around the world for weaknesses."
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Mr. Palmer stated that the weaknesses which allowed computers to be used to create botnets and the flaws in websites that allowed login information to be hacked, were fixable.
He said, "We're still being caught out by these attacks."
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