There is yet another hack for users of popular social media sites to worry about. Hackers may have used malware to collect more than 32 million Twitter login credentials that are now being sold on the dark web. Twitter says that its systems have not been breached.
“We are confident that these usernames and credentials were not obtained by a Twitter data breach – our systems have not been breached. In fact, we’ve been working to help keep accounts protected by checking our data against what’s been shared from recent other password leaks,” a Twitter spokesperson said.
LeakedSource, a site with a search engine of leaked login credentials, said in
a blog post that it received a copy of the user information from “
[email protected],” the same alias used by the person who
gave it hacked data from Russian social network VK last week.
Other major security compromises which have hit the news recently
include a Myspace hack that involved over 360 million accounts, possibly making it the largest one ever, and
the leak of 100 million LinkedIn passwords stolen in 2012.
