This Is A Pretty Salutary Story About The Risks Out There – And How To Protect Yourself.

This appeared a few days ago.TIMES INVESTIGATION ‘It’s the mother lode’: inside the black market for stolen recordsA vast hacked database available online for just £2 has been linked to RussiaLouis Goddard, Times Data TeamJune 23 2017, 12:01am, The Times  “800 million cracked email and password combinations from tons of hacks,” wrote one user of a shady online hacking forum in October last year. “It’s the mother lode.” On offer was a huge database of stolen credentials for sale for the equivalent of about £2.The price was low because the d atabase had been circulating for months. It had apparently been lifted from an invitation-only Russian forum dedicated to cybercrime, where through private message boards it may have changed hands for considerably more.The Times analysed a freely available copy of the database as well as a second, smaller, list. It found passwords belonging to cabinet ministers, ambassadors and senior police officers. They came from hacks of... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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