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100 million credentials from the Russian Facebook VK.com go on sale


Jasper_The_Rasper
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The breaches just keep coming :@
 
June 6, 2016  By Pierluigi Paganini
 

100 million login credentials belonging to the users of the Russian social networking platform VK.com (VKontakte) are available for sale on the Dark Web.

 
Another day another data breach, this time 100 million login credentials belonging to the users of the Russian social networking platform VK.com (VKontakte) are available for sale. Some experts estimate that the number of hacked records could be higher, reaching 170 million accounts.
 
VK.com is the Russian version of the most popular Facebook, it was created by Pavel Durov, who later left the company to launch the messaging app Telegram. It has been estimated that VK had 100 million users in 2014.
 
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Baldrick
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And don't they just...and poor innocent end users of something that should be more secure are once again slap bang in the middle of it all. :(

The Dark Web will probably have a "bargain day sale" on these credentials, it just does not stop sad to say

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