Breaking user database “VKontakte” was not, in the reports of the sale of some 100 million hacker accounts data we are talking about the old base, which the hackers collected in 2011-2012, explained RBC in social networks
The administration of social network “VKontakte “refuted the information on the database hacking of its users. Earlier in specialized publications, there were reports that the data of about 100 million pages of the social network “VKontakte” hacked and offered for sale.
«Hacking Database” VKontakte “was not, we are talking about the old base logins and passwords, that fraudsters collected in the period from 2011 to 2012. All mentioned therein user data to log on to the page changed to force “, – said RBC’s press secretary” VKontakte “Evgeny Krasnikov
« As a preventive measure we would like to further remind users “VKontakte.” About the inadmissibility of installing untested software on their devices, the possibility to choose two-factor authentication in the account settings, and to warn them against the use of simple, easy to select the password “- added Krasnikov
June 5 edition edition Motherboard reported that hacking” VKontakte “allegedly. carried out by a hacker nicknamed Peace. Then he placed the stolen data in the closed part of the Internet, which is used also for illicit operations, asking for her one bitcoin (about $ 570). According to the newspaper, a hacker claimed to have been put to it with data from more than 100 million pages.
At the same time clarified that cybercriminals have stolen information included user names, passwords, phone numbers and email addresses. Motherboard claims that the user “VKontakte”, which managed to contact the publication, confirmed that lined the hacker password really helps to open the page.
The publication LeakedSource, also received data from cybercriminals, has analyzed the data obtained and published the results . It turned out that more than 1.5 million “VKontakte” users use very simple passwords such as 123456, 123456789, qwerty or 11111. The 52 million cases, use e-mail and Mail.ru Yandex.ru. The report LeakedSource stated that password storage methods that use “VKontakte”, do not meet modern standards of the Internet, which led to cracking.
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In early May, Reuters, citing an expert on cyber security, Hold Security founder Alex Holden said the company on the basis of hundreds of millions of stolen usernames and passwords from mailboxes with a number of popular email services, including Mail.ru and Gmail.com.
According to Holden, the base includes 272.3 million of the stolen logins and passwords, most of which belongs Mail.ru users, and to a lesser extent Gmail users, Yahoo and Microsoft.
in Mail.ru They said that Holden contacted and received from him the data for analysis. “Investigation of the first randomly sample showed that it does not contain passwords that are suitable for active live accounts”, – the company said. In addition, experts have noticed that the database contains a lot of the same logins with different passwords. This suggests that it was compiled from fragments of different bases.
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