Alleged Massive Account and Password Seizure By Russian Group

New submitter Rigodi (1000552) writes "The New York Times reported on August 5th that a massive collection of stolen email passwords and website accounts have been accumulated by an alleged Russian "crime ring". Over 1.2 billion accounts were compromised ... the attack scheme is essentially the old and well known SQL injection tactic using a botnet. The Information has been made public to coincide with the Blackhat conference to cause a debate about the classic security account and password system weaknesses, urging the industry to find new ways to perform authentication. What do Black Hat security conference participants have to say about that in Vegas?

Comments

Re:because writing propet software

[AaronLS]

Apparently writing itself is hard, much less writing propet software.

Is this me?

[chinton]

Or is the hacker that stole my /. credentials writing this post?

Re:because writing propet software

[RabidReindeer]

The wisdom of the propets is written on the subway walls.

And tenement halls.

Re:Are the /. accounts affected ?

[Buchenskjoll]

I think the Anonymous Coward account is compromised. Look over his posts, it's mostly complete crap.