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

Posted by BeauHD on 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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  1. People who do this should be killed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Seriously, find out who this guy is, arrest hum, destroy his data, and execute him. He's a piece of shit who deserves to executed for his crimes. This should also be the fate of assholes like botnet operators. Put them to death.