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Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts

Posted by Soulskill on from the army-of-pokes dept.

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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  1. Translation by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looking at the numbers, Kirllos has stolen the IDs of one out of every 300 Facebook users.

    Translation: it might not be a bad time to change your password if you use Facebook.

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    My work here is dung.
    1. Re:Translation by Bergs007 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually... what this means is that you should change your banking passwords. It appears that what they are trying to do is use Facebook login credentials to go and see if there are any associated bank accounts with the same login information.

  2. I'll take them by kyrio · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can increase the size of my friend network and be the biggest star on the net!

  3. Play with fire by Becausegodhasmademe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    According to the Facebook statistics page the average account has 130 friends. If 1 in 300 accounts are compromised and you have circa 130 friends then the odds are quite high that the personal data you have "only available to friends" is going to become available to some fairly unfriendly people shortly.

    Reminds me of the evertrue saying 'play with fire and you'll get burnt'. I have always been mindful of the threat FB poses to my privacy and have completely closed down my account several times, but keep giving in and going back due to peer pressure from family & friends. This time I'm killing it off for sure. No organization, be it governmental or corporate should have control over so much of an individuals personal data.

  4. Re:Can someone please tell me... by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. collect facebook ids
    2. ???
    3. profit!

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.