Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts

Sir Codelot writes "A hacker who calls himself Kirllos has obtained and is now offering to sell 1.5 million Facebook IDs at astonishingly low prices — $25 per 1,000 IDs for users with fewer than 10 friends and $45 per 1,000 IDs for users with more than 10 friends. Looking at the numbers, Kirllos has stolen the IDs of one out of every 300 Facebook users. Quoting: 'VeriSign director of cyber intelligence Rick Howard told the New York Times that it appeared close to 700,000 had already been sold. Kirllos would have earned at least $25,000 from the scam. Howard told the newspaper that it was not apparent whether the accounts and passwords were legitimate, but a Russian underground hacking magazine reported it had tested some of Kirllos' previous samples and managed to get into people's accounts.'"

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Re:FB has been quite liberal with users' privacy

[Dyne09]

"Sorry, but services like Facebook fill an important gap that nothing else really caters for. If you don't like it, think of something better, but don't go round bashing it just because you personally have never moved out of your home town or made any friends who lived more than a street away." If you're this much of a douche in person, it's no wonder your friends chose to interact with you remotely.

Re:FB has been quite liberal with users' privacy

[blind biker]

If you don't like it, think of something better, but don't go round bashing it just because you personally have never moved out of your home town or made any friends who lived more than a street away.

Actually, I've traveled far and wide, visited the USA a couple of times, traveled around Asia a bit, even dipped my toes in Oceania (New Zealand), finally met my wife somewhere in the middle (Thailand) and am living in Northern Europe, even though I was born and raised in Southern Europe. I have, therefore, left my hometown. Judging by your myopic comment, I guess I travel more on my bike every day, than you do in a week using any means of transportation.

And I'll continue bashing FB as much as I please. Unless that hurts your sensitivities very, very much. I guess the average Facebook user is an emo type, in addition to be devoid of a clue, so I should be mindful of that.