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Hold Security finds hacker trying to offload stash of 272.3 million stolen email account credentials

Details of millions of hacked Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft email accounts have appeared online, where a Russian hacker was attempting to sell them on an online forum.


The 272.3 million stolen accounts mostly consisted of Mail.ru email account credentials, Russia’s largest email service, according to Reuters.

But the security researcher who uncovered the stash of email credentials said that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft email accounts were also up for sale.

1.17 billion records

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Alex Holden, founder of Hold Security, told the agency that he and his team of researchers found a Russian hacker boasting on a forum that he was ready to offload a batch of stolen email credentials, consisting of 1.17 billion records. Those credentials included the 272.3 million stolen email accounts.

After a process of deleting duplicate records, Holden told Reuters he ended up with almost 57 million Mail.ru accounts, a significant proportion of Mail.ru’s 100 million active users.

The dump of data also contained “tens of million” of credentials for Gmail, Microsoft, and Yahoo email accounts, along with hundreds of thousands of other accounts associated with Chinese and German email providers.

TechWeekEurope is awaiting response from Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo.

‘Potent’

“This information is potent. It is floating around in the underground and this person has shown he’s willing to give the data away to people who are nice to him,” Holden is quoted as saying.

“These credentials can be abused multiple times.”


But in the end, the hacker gave up the stash of credentials for free, on the basis that Holden and Hold Security would give praise to the hacker in online forums for allegedly obtaining the data in the first place.

Holden told TechWeekEurope today that his main concern is the hacker’s lack of importance to the data considering its potential potency.

“If he gave away this data to us, he might of done it countless other times to different groups of hackers which may abuse or repost this data in many different malicious ways,” he said.

A Mail.ru spokesperson, after being told about the breach, told the agency: “We are now checking, whether any combinations of usernames/passwords match users’ e-mails and are still active.

“As soon as we have enough information we will warn the users who might have been affected,” she said, adding that Mail.ru’s initial checks found no live combinations of usernames and passwords which match existing emails.

According to Holden, there 40 million Yahoo Mail credentials involved in the breach. Microsoft Hotmail accounts made up 33 million of the credentials, with 24 million belonging to Gmail users. Alongside these, thousands of other login credentials were found that belong to employees in some of the biggest US manufacturing, banking, and retail companies.

“50 rubles is what the hacker wants for this incredibly large set of data. He can’t be serious; based on today’s exchange rate it is less than one US dollar. This greatly impacts the data’s credibility and value, similar to an expensive sports car being sold for pennies at auction,” Hold Security said in a blog post.

Getting rid

“’I am just getting rid of it but I won’t do it for free’, he replies. In all reality, 50 rubles is next to nothing, but we refuse to contribute even insignificant amounts to his cause. It is rather funny to negotiate over this, but finally the hacker just asks us to add likes/votes to his social media page (so much for anonymity). That we can do, and once he is satisfied with the results we get a link to an incredible 10 gigabytes in a compressed database, which takes us more than hour to download.

“Within several days of communication and after a couple more strategically timed votes on his social media pages, he shared more useful information.

“At the end, this kid from a small town in Russia collected an incredible 1.17 Billion stolen credentials from numerous breaches that we are still working on identifying. 272 million of those credentials turned out to be unique, which in turn, translated to 42.5 million credentials – 15 percent of the total, that we have never seen before.”

Past success

It was 2014 when Holden and his team found a cache of 1.2 billion stolen credentials in the world’s largest ever case of stolen accounts.

According to research by Hold Security, a group dubbed ‘CyberVor’ (‘CyberThief’ in Russian) had been using several botnets to automate the process of scanning for vulnerabilities such as SQL injection flaws. Later, they simply attacked the websites which were proven to be vulnerable to gain access to the credentials.

In October 2013, Hold Security identified a data breach with Adobe Systems. Later in December that year, the firm independently identified and tracked the Target breach.


Read more at http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/security/millions-stolen-email-accounts-microsoft-google-yahoo-191267


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It's advisable you change your password to be sure of your email security.

Foreign and domestic debt has reduced, that's a good development.
I think i'm more interested in recurrent expenditure.

shugadude:
very informative

mattonnairaland:
I'm knowing these for the first time. Very informative
Lalasticlala come and see

Glad to know.


Dominique and Lalasticlala, can we have this on HP for more people to be aware.
Thanks

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Afeni Shakur Davis, the famous rapper Tupac Shakur's mother and a member of the infamous "Panther 21" in the 1970s, has died aged 69, California officials say.

Davis' death was first announced by the Marin County Sheriff. She had reportedly been living on a houseboat in Sausalito, Calif. A cause of death has not yet been given.

Born Alice Faye Williams, she changed her name as an adult when she became politically active and joined the Black Panther movement. A native of North Carolina, Davis first gained prominence as one of 21 members of the Black Panther party put on trail in New York in 1969 for allegedly plotting to shoot and bomb two New York City police stations and an education center. It was at the time the most expensive trial in New York history and ended with an acquittal of all defendants.

She gave birth to two children, most famously Lesane Parish Crooks in June of 1971, who was later known as Tupac Shakur. Tupac's dad, Billy Garland, had been acquitted with Davis in the Panther 21 trial just a month before he was born.

As she bounced from New York City to Baltimore to California, falling deeper into drugs and the Black Panther movement, she enrolled young Tupac in several arts schools and programs, where he honed the natural musical and acting gifts that would make him a hip-hop icon.

In later life, Davis spent much of her time managing her late son's massively popular musical legacy after he was gunned down at age 25 on a Las Vegas street corner in 1996. Shakur's musical catalog was netting about $900 million per year at the time of her death, reports the New York Daily News.

In 2003 on the release of the movie "Tupac Resurrection," Davis told CBS News: "I'm not a filmmaker. I'm not a music producer by choice. Whatever it is I'm doing I do because my son was murdered, and he was not able to complete his work. So as his mother, my whole job and responsibility is to see to it that that happens for him, and I do that with love."

Davis was often noted for talking with frankness and candor, whether discussing her former crack habit or her son's own mistakes, which she allowed to be chronicled directly.

Davis rarely talked about the fact that the killing of her son is still unsolved, and insisted in her CBS News interview she did not think about it.

"Not a second. Not even a nanosecond have I concerned myself with who shot him or why they shot him, or what should happen to them. I don't care what happens to them," she says fiercely. "I spend my time putting my sons work out, because guess what - they shot him, (but) did not shut him up though."

More recently, Davis had been involved in a divorce dispute with North Carolina minister Gust Davis, reports TMZ.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tupac-shakur-mother-afeni-shakur-davis-dies-age-69/

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Nigeria’s bid to appoint a former Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp as Eagles foreign technical adviser seems to have suffered a setback as the former Portsmouth coach has concluded plans to join Australian club Central Coast Mariners as a consultant.

Redknapp recently had a two-game spell in charge of Jordan, overseeing an 8-0 win over Bangladesh and a 5-1 loss to Australia in Sydney. Harry Redknapp The 69-year-old is also acting as an advisor to Derby County, currently fifth in the Championship. Based in New South Wales, Mariners were A-League winners in 2008 and 2012. Redknapp’s decision to opt for the Australian job comes after it emerged late Thursday night that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) was set to name him the long-term Eagles manager. A London tabloid, Daily Star, had reported that Redknapp was in line to grab the Eagles job, overseeing the country’s Russia 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign, after the team failed to qualify for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon.

Coach Salisu Yusuf presently acts as interim coach, with the mandate to take charge of two upcoming friendlies against Mali in Paris on May 27 and Luxembourg on June 1. But Daily Stars said Redknapp was approached to take over reins of power, with a source close to the team revealing he could be named as the next permanent manager within a few days. Redknapp is largely untested at international level after narrowly missing out on the England job to Roy Hodgson.

But with the latest twist that he has opted to join Central Coast Mariners, it seems Redknapp has put paid to NFF’s bid to hire him for a role widely regarded as the biggest job in African football.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/eagles-job-redknapp-shuns-nigeria

Why is the media troubling this woman with different publications at least she's not complaining.

This Freeze guy is only using the situation to pull a little fame to himself.

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Nigeria’s and CSKA Moscow striker, Ahmed Musa is on the radar of Leicester City for next season.

Leicester who may win the English league crown in a few hours today are said to have revived their interest in the Nigerian international as they plan for the Champions League next season.

The 23-year-old was a target for Claudio Ranieri in January but Leicester believed CSKA’s asking price was too high as they pushed for £20million.

Musa is fast, can play across the frontline and has scored 12 goals in 32 games this season. He also has Champions League experience, something lacking in Ranieri’s squad for now.

The Mail Online reported that Leicester sent scouts to watch Musa against Lokomotiv Moscow earlier this month to keep up to date with his performances.

Leicester had two bids rejected in January but will hope to strike a compromise at around £18m for Musa in the coming weeks.


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When you know the endorsement deals that would be lost, you correct marital flaws ASAP. AY is a sharp guy!

Built2last:
Can you see where Obama was seating in that picture with his VP. Again, he is the only black man in that picture yet he is safe. he understands that this is not his core competence. he was brought into the observation room to see for himself how the show will go down.

if its our clueless leaders in Africa, they will sing national anthem there because the president is around till Osama escapes. that room will be full his tribes men.

The president will take the seat of the general commanding the operation even if he is clueless about the military jargons and communication mechanisms.

Our soldiers will see moving ladies who went to fetch water in Sambisa forest and tell us on the media they have sported Chibok girls.

we have seen and surrounded bokoharam holding the girls severally only on the media.

we do not have any classified operation in our intelligence. you announce you have sported the girls, if am bokoharam, am I suppose to be dancing alanta with the girls or change base.

we have a 1000 years to catch up with the west. if we ever do

As important as your submission is, I was laughing all through my reading.

You've killed one of your ancestors, that's why

kowema:
Every one is now a marriage counselor, Even those that their marriage ended at their reception.
People should just let this people heal quietly abeg, these cuts are really deep.

Wicked soul

Why are these people talking about racism? Your team is 3 goal down, you pulled one back and you're celebrating... what's there to celebrate? Talk of unmatured Ihenacho.

This match will be very interesting.
Don't ask me why

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RIP brother, your labour shall not be in vain.

I think the South-south and South-east should start breeding a vigilante group. They would be the first to defend their communities and minimize damages.

Babzilla:
Well they may have a point as criminals use it to commit crimes.
But then banning civilians from wearing it has not stopped criminals from wearing it to commit crimes

That's it. Kidnappers and co still use the uniform for various crimes, so why bully the ordinary civilian that takes pride in their institution.

Emeskhalifa:
if go like yankee u see civilians at Times wearing khaki na. and their army won't even bother sef.

Yes, you've a point. It's different here.

Sylverbox:
bros we are twisted in Nigeria. I only wear camo abroad and make sure I take loads of pictures. Truth be told I lve abd respect the army and I love their wears too. But my dear country will beat and molest me for showing this much love.

This exactly is my point. We can't wear it here for some frivolous reasons. I wear it to support the military, I take pride to wear something similar to what those gallant soldiers in the North are wearing and I think that's not going beyond whatever 'boundary' or ethics of the military.

Everyone should take pride in wearing this camouflage, it's an act of celebrating the military, why should Nigerians be afraid to do that.

Your wife was once bleeped by some guys as you've bleeped other people's wife. That's the circle!

yaki84:
how soon?
dont forget soon can be long term too. 100yrs na soon, vision 2020 was enacted in the 90s n it was tagged soon.

Within the first 2 years judging from the measures on ground now.

The change will surely come.
I believe in Buhari

Imagine this!
These people will stop at nothing to ridicule this government.

Shame on those that want the Federal Government to sell our refineries.

Shame on those that said our refineries was never going to work.

Shame on those that want us to keep importing from their foreign refineries.

This same cabal frustrated and stopped Jonathan.

They will be crushed soon. I believe in Buhari.

amtaken:
Res ipsa loquitor.


[s]No electricity.

Forex scarcity.

No fuel.

Massive retrenchment of Federal workers and falsely accusing them of being ghost workers.

No money in the system leading to crime increase.

No jobs.


Late payment of Federal Government Workers Salaries till today.

Breach of all his electoral promises.


Fulani Herdsmen brutal killings.


Boko Haram insurgency.


Killing of peaceful protesters in SS and SE.


Selective probing.


Lopsided appointments.


Inconclusive elections.

Gross inflation leading to high cost of living.


Abrupt stoppage of Nigerian students in diaspora's scholarships.

Collapse of businesses especially international businesses.


Kidnapping and marrying off under-aged girls by Buhari's people with the full support of Emirs.

Spoiling of Nigeria image whenever he makes a foreign trip thereby chasing away our investors and discouraging potential investors . Etc.

Need I say more? [/s]

Yo need to see me laughing here
Fixed!

amtaken:
Buhari is a total failure.

I never expected him to be this bad.

Good night.

Talk with proofs young lady. Bring your facts up!
I quoted some of Buhari's achievements in about a year and all you do is just bad mouth visible progressive efforts.

amtaken:
You are yet to answer my question.


What date did you get your alerts prior to 29th May, 2015?





GEJ never owed workers. You can manufacture as much fake news as you wish. 95% of Nigerians can attest to the fact that GEJ treated the workers right and sent many of the workers for training abroad.


By the way stop mixing up State Government Workers salaries and that of Federal.



You can keep suffering and smiling but don't lie against a man better than the Duara dunce.

Well, here is the fact again incase you missed the first link.
Evidence terminates argument

Buhari Approves Over $2B For Unpaid Workers Salaries; Directs CBN To Package Over ₦250B Special Intervention Fund For States

http://saharareporters.com/2015/07/06/buhari-approves-over-2b-unpaid-workers-salaries-directs-cbn-package-over-₦250b-special


You're a blind supported of the clueless administration we had and a hypocrite of the present.