32m Twitter passwords may have been hacked and put up for sale on the Dark Web
Just days after Facebook czar Mark Zuckerberg’s social media accounts were found to be hacked, it appears that more folks will need to change their passwords.
ZDNet reported that a Russian hacker claimed to have a massive cache of millions of Twitter account logins for sale, for 10 bitcoins or about $5,807. LeakedSource, which indexes hacked credentials from data breaches, noted in a blog post that the database, of which it received a copy, contains more than 32 million accounts.
The site explained that the passwords were stored as plain text and several of them seemed to belong to users in Russia. As such, it’s more likely that these credentials were obtained through malware attacks on users rather than a breach of Twitter’s systems.
