Over 100M Accounts of Russia's Largest Social Network VK On Sale (vice.com)

Accounts of over 100 million users of VK.com, Russia's largest social network is being traded on the digital underground. A hacker who goes by the alias "Peace," listed the date for sale on a dark web marketplace. Vice's Motherboard publication reports that it received a dataset of over 100,544,934 records from Peace. From the report: According to Peace, the passwords were already in plain text when the site was hacked, and were not cracked at a later date. Peace is selling the data for 1 bitcoin, or around $570 at today's exchange rates. Out of 100 randomly selected email addresses from the larger dataset, 92 corresponded to active accounts on the site, Motherboard found. A Russian friend contacted by Motherboard confirmed that the password was correct.The report adds that the actual hack occurred between 2011 and 2013, and that Peace has data of another 70 million users that it isn't selling right now.

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Might get a ruble or two

[Anonymous Coward]

if that.

well..

[superwiz]

How do we know it's not VK itself? It's effectively owned by the RF government. And they are not exactly known for being straight players.... VK was hacked by "volunteers"... the same ones who occupied Crimea before RF officially took it over.

Re:well..

[Anonymous Coward]

How do we know it's not VK itself? It's effectively owned by the RF government. And they are not exactly known for being straight players.... VK was hacked by "volunteers"... the same ones who occupied Crimea before RF officially took it over.

In my eyes that seems incredibly unlikely. Why would they?

Re:well..

[superwiz]

A million different reasons. Some noble, some sinister, some mercantile.

1. To see who would try to buy it. To flush out any would-be attackers.
2. To see what ways of anonymizing potential buyers would try to use. To explore which vectors of attacking anonymous transactions they may need to explore.
3. To raise money.
4. To lure potential attackers into honeypot sandboxes to see what they would try to do with the info once they are in.

The list goes on.

Re:well..

[zenlessyank]

Enlighten me as to who IS a straight player??

Re:well..

[superwiz]

Enlighten me as to who IS a straight player??

"Trust, but verify" would imply those who are open to external inspections.

Re:well..

[zenlessyank]

Sending letter now to NSA, FBI, DEA for an external inspection. Request denied. Yet they take my money outta the tax pile.

Re:well..

[superwiz]

Yet they take my money outta the tax pile.

Why would russian trolls be paying taxes in the US?

Re:well..

[zenlessyank]

Apparently you suffer from reading miscomprehension.

Surprisingly

[theskipper]

The most common password after 'password1' was 'dadada'. Wonder what that's all about?

Re:Surprisingly

[Anonymous Coward]

The most common password after 'password1' was 'dadada'. Wonder what that's all about?

it means yesyesyes

Re:Surprisingly

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

The most common password after 'password1' was 'dadada'. Wonder what that's all about?

it means yesyesyes

So based on dating attempts, most Russian slashdotters would use the pw "nyetnyetnyet"?

Obligatory

[U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M]

In Soviet Russia, Social Network owns YOU!

Oh wait, they're all like that.

Carry on.

simple way to confirm the accounts hacked.

[nimbius]

dimitri: Am of posting fresh potato, look. this is of good flavor too from sister svetlana garden.
Svetlana: I hope you are into enjoyment of the flavor!
dimitri:look! of even better potato! this potato i get today, click here for your potato too!
Svetlana:what?!?! am not of into giving other potato!!
Ivan: this is not of happenings dimitri! how is this? no one have TWO POTATO you are of into LIE??
dimitri: nyet! was not potato from my postings! is hacker of my account! potato was not my potato!!!
Ivan: you should change potato. this potato is not of secure then. maybe do not eat insecurity potato.
Svetlana: American burger with chees! I just got my free burger at the free burger site pls click here for delicious burger hams with a breadroll from actual american!!
Putin:...please into showing me where burger is....

Re:simple way to confirm the accounts hacked.

[Anonymous Coward]

This should be offensive, but it's too damn funny!

Re:simple way to confirm the accounts hacked.

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

maybe do not eat insecurity potato.

Okay, I confess- that made me laugh.

(SJWs- please advise me if I should feel guilty about laughing at this horrible depiction of Russians, and the cultural appropriation it surely embodies.)

Re:simple way to confirm the accounts hacked.

[Escogido]

>please advise me if I should feel guilty about laughing at this horrible depiction of Russians, and the cultural appropriation it surely embodies

No SJW, but a Russian here. The "maybe do not eat insecurity potato" is pretty much against the core principle of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...' and thus very un-Russian. Perhaps cultural misappropriation is of better describings here, comrade.

Here's another example from Russian vernacular. "If you have a bottle of vodka that looks weird, has label badly glued on and turned sideways, not sealed tightly, there is something floating at the bottom, and emits unpleasant odor, REMEMBER - you should drink it VERY CAREFULLY."

Re:simple way to confirm the accounts hacked.

[Escogido]

The Wikipedia URL mentioned should have ended with a %27 which capitalist Slashdot decided to change into a apostrophe outside the link for some reason. Nekharasho.

Re:simple way to confirm the accounts hacked.

[superwiz]

When did Slashdot go capitalist? It has always been crawling with neo-communists.

Re:simple way to confirm the accounts hacked.

[superwiz]

Don't worry. Most cultures are not worried about cultural appropriation. In fact, they go out of their way to create export their culture. In fact, even the people complaining about cultural appropriation are more likely just trying to stymie cultural import. I can just see it: europeans apologizing to americans for eating burgers, wearing blue jeans and watching Hollywood movies because its a microaggression in the form of cultural appropriation.

Peace sells, but who's buying?

[Anonymous Coward]

/horns /Megadeath

Re:Peace sells, but who's buying?

[zenlessyank]

It's Megadeth, ya fucking anon poser!!!!!

Re:Peace sells, but who's buying?

[Anonymous Coward]

Quibbling over typos makes you look like a raging douchewad neckbeard. Oh wait this is /. you are!

PORN!

[Frosty Piss]

VK is where I search for my porn. There's some wild and crazy stuff on VK.

Data for sale

[fustakrakich]

See Slashdot front page ad for details...

I can see what happens next.

[SuricouRaven]

I'm expecting the Russian media to start claiming the hack was orchestrated by the CIA as part of a plot to undermine Russian culture, weaken their economy and make it easier to monitor their communications.

At this point, I wouldn't be too surprised if they were right.

Not a hack

[Anonymous Coward]

Somebody just scanned the social site for the easiest, most common passwords. How is this a hack?