Russian Hacker Selling Information of 32 Million Twitter Accounts, Report Says (zdnet.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday June 8, 2016 @07:00PM from the time-to-change-your-password dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The hacker who has links to the recent Myspace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr data breaches, is claiming to have obtained a database of millions of Twitter accounts. The data reportedly includes addresses, usernames, and plain-text passwords of 379 million Twitter accounts. The hacker, Tessa88, wants 10 bitcoins, or about $5,820 for the cache. On Wednesday, LeakedSource claimed that the real number of accounts was just under 33 million, which is more than 10 percent of Twitter's monthly active accounts. This follows the hacking of Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts.

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Re:Why do Slashdot users continually defend hacker by ShanghaiBill · 2016-06-09 01:44 · Score: 3, Insightful

It's as if Slashdot users approve and encourage this type of behavior. Why?
Because the solution to the problem is better security, not more ethical hackers. Hackers will hack, regardless of the severity of the punishment. How many hackers do you think will be dissuaded by stern disapproval from Slashdot?