25,000 Indian email ids found on hacker forums
The last couple of years have seen criminals hacking websites to steal personal information for monetary gains. Now, security firm Trend Micro has come out with a report which said that there are about 25,000 Indian email addresses and passwords on different hacker forums on the internet.
The report further stated that the information is a mix of email ids and passwords from sites like Yahoo, Gmail, Sify, different webmail addresses and a number of corporate email addresses as well.
Abhinav Karnwal, APAC technical marketing manager - enterprise, Trend Micro said the data is posted on numerous hacker forums on the underground. “These websites are not published. If a person wants to access it, they have to choose specific DNS servers or channels,” he said.
