{"id":5482,"date":"2016-06-13T05:25:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T09:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2019-11-15T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:24:09","slug":"millions-twitter-accounts-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/millions-twitter-accounts-leak\/5482\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster, harder, Twitter: millions of passwords leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone likes Twitter. Well, okay, maybe not everyone, but at least\u00a0310 million users<\/a>\u00a0visit the microblogging platform monthly. And now these 310 million have to consider changing their Twitter password. This is not because they are as insecure as 123456 or something like that, but because a database of\u00a0379 million Twitter accounts with passwords<\/a>\u00a0are now being sold on the Darknet.<\/p>\n

Astrologers proclaimed a month of leaks. The population of leaks doubled.\u2019 If you know what I mean. The announcement about\u00a0117 million LinkedIn accounts<\/a>\u00a0was shortly followed by the leakage of several hundred million\u00a0MySpace and Tumblr accounts<\/a>, then by\u00a0100 million VK.com accounts<\/a>. Now the hacker associated with those leaks,Tessa88, claims to have 379 million Twitter accounts. And they are for sale for just 10 bitcoins, which is about $5,280.<\/p>\n

379 million seems to be a bit bigger, than Twitter\u2019s monthly audience, but the\u00a0analysis<\/a>\u00a0done by LeakedSource shows that there are in fact a little more than 32 million unique accounts. Yet 32 million is still a big deal.<\/p>\n

LeakedSource believes that it\u2019s not Twitter to blame for the leak, but the users themselves. It looks like Twitter was not hacked, because the passwords in the database were in plain text, and LeakedSource is sure that Twitter was not storing them in plain text.<\/p>\n

So the passwords were probably stolen from the browsers which were infected by some type of malware, that was stealing all the credentials it could steal. Yes, malware is not only about encrypting your girlfriends pictures and\u00a0terrorizing hospitals<\/a>. It\u2019s about collecting huge sets of credentials as well.<\/p>\n

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#Twitter<\/a> security #tips<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/jUoQvqEtmp<\/a> #socialmedia<\/a> #SMM<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/eexdpkb4zY<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) April 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n