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FBI is looking for hackers after 1.2 billion logins are stolen
25 November 2015
FBI connects hacker to 1.2 billion stolen internet credentials, the largest heist of this type.
A hacker dubbed "mr.grey" is mentioned in court documents filed by the bureau last year, according the Reuters news agency.
The hacker was linked via a Russian email address to the stolen logins.
In the past, "mr.grey" had advertised the credentials to Facebook and Twitter accounts on the market for sale online.
It was the American cyber security firm Hold Security that initially reported the theft of the credentials and an additional 500 million email addresses in the past year.
According to Hold Security, CyberVor, the Russian crime group that stole the data was responsible for hacking more than 420,000 websites.
In August, the company stated, "To the best of our knowledge, they mostly focused on stealing credentials, ultimately ending up with the largest cache of stolen personal information, 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
No matter who the perpetrator of CyberVor's breach is, the method employed was different from the way botnets (large networks of computers connected maliciously) are utilized, according to Dave Palmer of Darktrace, director of technology.
"What's interesting about this is botnets are typically used to harness their massive scale to target an individual target - like taking down computer games consoles at Christmas time, for instance," he said to the BBC.
"It's instead been used as a massive scanner that scans websites across the world for weaknesses."
Palmer stated that it was possible to fix the weaknesses that allowed computers to be used as botnets as well as the flaws that were found in websites that allowed login credentials to be hacked.
"We're still being caught by these attacks," he said.
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