Hacking VKontakte: data stolen 171 million users

The Motherboard edition reported that the hacker, nicknamed Peace, hacked a popular Russian social network, and then posted the stolen data for sale.

According to representatives of the social network - there was no hacking, we are talking about the old base, which hackers collected in 2011–2012.

Peace_of_mind (Peace) hacker, who previously put up for sale data on hundreds of millions of LinkedIn, MySpace and Tumblr accounts, now sells information on more than one hundred million VKontakte accounts.
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The announcement of the sale of data appeared in the darknet last weekend. The cost of user data is one Bitcoin (about $ 580 at the current rate). Also, this dump is at the disposal of the LeakedSource leak aggregator. The database contains records of 100 million accounts. Another 71 million hacker left in reserve.

It is difficult to judge the relevance and reliability of the database: the administration of the resource claims that this is an old sink, but checking random accounts allows you to log in to the social network: a representative from the publisher Motherboard claims that the VKontakte user who managed to contact the publication confirmed that the password laid out by the hacker is indeed helps to open his page.

A simple search showed that 92 out of 100 email addresses verified by journalists still belong to active users of the social network.

The base "weighs" about 17 gigabytes and contains full names, phones and passwords in the clear.

Statistics of frequently used passwords shows that most users use simple passwords, and most likely, they practically do not change them.

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