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elgato
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:19 pm Post subject: Hacked logins used to hijack PayPal, Facebook accounts |
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Australians are being advised by the government to change and vary their passwords after miscreants began using the logins of thousands of people leaked on to the web to break into Facebook and PayPal accounts.
One claims to have bought a packet of condoms "for an elderly woman" using the online store Amazon.
The LulzSec hacker group was responsible for the leak of 62,000 email addresses and passwords, which were downloaded a claimed 2100 times in the first 4 minutes after release.
It comes after the same group claimed several high-profile scalps including the CIA, US Senate, an FBI affiliate, Sony and several video games companies. It didn't say where it got the latest dump of details from. A post on writerspace.com said about 12,000 of the logins were leaked from its database.
The federal government has this afternoon warned people to use different passwords for each of their online activities after the leaked passwords were used to access an array of online accounts of the affected users, including email, PayPal and Facebook.
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WatchCount
Joined: 25 May 2011
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| Most people don't realize... There are a lot more hacking events, breakins, and data breaches than people think that don't make it to the news for a variety of reasons. Organizations really don't like admitting to such things; politics/agendas come into play, etc... |
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