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ALERT ! Hackers are now selling hacked data (mainly login credentials) of uTorrent forum, mail.ru & yandex.ru on the darkweb
uTorrent’s security advisory has confirmed that a massive data breach occurred in June, 2016. Over 300K accounts got hacked. Hacker stolen users login ID & encrypted passwords. About 394,769 users passwords were stolen which are stored as encrypted with Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) & MD-5 Hash. On the darkweb marketplace a vendor called "DoubleFlag" put on this sell request.
ALERT !!! Change Immediately your uTorrent Forum password !!!
Same thing happened to mail.ru , the famous Russian internet giant. Due to use of week MD-5 Hashing Algorithm mail.ru got hacked previously two times in July & August, 2016, when over 27 million accounts data were stolen. But, this time over 57 million accounts got hacked. And it is suspected that this hack was performed in May, 2016. All 57 million users passwords are encrypted with a very week MD-5 Hashing Algorithm. Experts say that these encrypted passwords are very easy to crack by operating brute force. On the darkweb marketplace a vendor called "saul_berenson" put on this sell request.
ALERT !!! Change Immediately your mail.ru password !!!
Another bad thing is happened to an another Russian giant search engine yandex.ru. Yandex got hacked previously numerous times. This time hacker manged to steal over 6.5 million users data. The most worried thing is that all the passwords were not encrypted, a huge portion of login credentials are stored on the yandex.ru server as plain texts. On the darkweb marketplace again same vendor "saul_berenson" put on this sell request of 659,5756 yandex.ru users hacked data.
ALERT !!! Change Immediately your Yandex.ru password !!!
Source of the news : https://www.hackread.com/utorrent-forum-mailru-yandex-data-darknet/
Tags : Hacks, News, Security, Cyber Attack, Cyber Crime,
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