September 6, 2016 at 11:10Nearly 100 million passwords flowed openly from Rambler
Another data leak from 2012, and this time, is the largest Russian Internet portal and email service provider Rambler.ru.
Rambler.ru, also known as Russian Yahoo, suffered an extensive leak in 2012. An unknown hacker or group of hackers managed to steal almost 100 million accounts, including clear-text passwords.
A copy of the hacked database contains details about 98,167,935 Rambler.ru users who were originally stolen on February 17, 2012, but this information is being hushed up.
The leaked user database includes usernames, email addresses, ICQ numbers, details of social network accounts, passwords and some internal data.
The hacker reported a leak that uses Jabber ID daykalif@xmpp.jp, which transmitted LeakedSource more than 43.5 million user records from another hack in 2012 - Last.fm music streaming service.
According to LeakedSource, none of the passwords was hashed, which means that the company stores the passwords of its users in unencrypted text format.
This is similar to the VK.com hack , in which 171 million user accounts were seized from the Russian social network, where, as it turned out, the passwords are also stored in unencrypted form, without any hashes or salt mixing.
Again, as you would expect, the most common passwords used by Rambler.ru users include Asdasd, 123456, 000000, 654321, 123321, or 123123.
LeakedSource has added a leak to its database so that Rambler.ru users can check if they have been compromised.
Rambler.ru is another victim to join the Mega-Breaches list identified in recent months, when hundreds of millions of online credentials that have been outdated for years, including LinkedIn, MySpace, vk.com, Tumblr, and Dropbox, have been exposed. in Internet.
Rambler has not yet responded to the incident.
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Rambler.ru, also known as Russian Yahoo, suffered an extensive leak in 2012. An unknown hacker or group of hackers managed to steal almost 100 million accounts, including clear-text passwords.
A copy of the hacked database contains details about 98,167,935 Rambler.ru users who were originally stolen on February 17, 2012, but this information is being hushed up.
The leaked user database includes usernames, email addresses, ICQ numbers, details of social network accounts, passwords and some internal data.
The hacker reported a leak that uses Jabber ID daykalif@xmpp.jp, which transmitted LeakedSource more than 43.5 million user records from another hack in 2012 - Last.fm music streaming service.
According to LeakedSource, none of the passwords was hashed, which means that the company stores the passwords of its users in unencrypted text format.
This is similar to the VK.com hack , in which 171 million user accounts were seized from the Russian social network, where, as it turned out, the passwords are also stored in unencrypted form, without any hashes or salt mixing.
Again, as you would expect, the most common passwords used by Rambler.ru users include Asdasd, 123456, 000000, 654321, 123321, or 123123.
LeakedSource has added a leak to its database so that Rambler.ru users can check if they have been compromised.
Rambler.ru is another victim to join the Mega-Breaches list identified in recent months, when hundreds of millions of online credentials that have been outdated for years, including LinkedIn, MySpace, vk.com, Tumblr, and Dropbox, have been exposed. in Internet.
Rambler has not yet responded to the incident.
* Free translation of this article