Hacker Offers Up 1.5 Million Stolen Facebook IDs for Sale
Hacker Offers Up 1.5 Million Stolen Facebook IDs for Sale
Posted 04/26/2010 at 4:30am
| by Paul Lilly
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Have you changed your Facebook password lately? If not, perhaps you should, just to play it on the safe side. According to researchers at VeriSign's iDefense group, a hacker by the name of Kirllos is selling Facebook usernames and passwords, and it appears he has 1.5 million accounts up for grabs.
It isn't yet clear if the supposedly stolen accounts are real or not, and Facebook so far isn't saying anything. But if they are legit, that would work out to about one in every 300 Facebook users with compromised accounts on the black market. Prices for the accounts range from $25 to $45 per 1,000 accounts.
That's a bargain compared to what stolen online accounts typically sell for. According to Symantec, email usernames and passwords usually go for $1 to $20 per account, whereas Krillos is asking for as little as $0.025 per Facebook account.
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Hutif
April 26, 2010 at 9:40am
Odds are, they will use the accounts to join groups like "Win a Free iPad!" and encourage legitimate users to join it as well. These groups then have instructions on how to "win" which I'm guessing results in some sort of virus. I can see why some particularly annoying hacker would try this crap.
MeTo
April 26, 2010 at 7:14am
It could be used to send out virus in other peoples name and should be illeagle. Any hacking or cracking should be illeagle.
Havok
April 26, 2010 at 10:49am
Spelling illegal wrong. Twice.
YES! This post made it through the Spam Filter!
Rocketpop
April 26, 2010 at 4:42am
Um, okay, so what are you supposed to do once you have someone else's Facebook account? Spam your friends with derogatory and obscene wall posts?
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