There was a major in the history of the theft of credentials

In the sale of the "black market" entered the biggest in the history of an array of stolen accounts belonging to 360 million users.

This was reported by Reuters to the head of the IB- Hold Security Alex Holden (Alex Holden). Holden says , all 360 million accounts leaked on the market within the last three weeks .

Also compromised accounts on the "black market" got data on 1250000000 e-mail addresses for spamming .

Holden , who participated in last year's disclosure abduction 150 million compromised " uchetok » Adobe Systems, now calls the amount of theft " stunning » (overwhelming).

Present theft is more of a danger for users and companies than credit card data theft , says the analyst . After the analysis of such a colossal number of user logins and passwords , hackers can gain access to online banking services , corporate networks, medical records and any other services , with Internet access .

Holden suggests that the data received at the auction were stolen as a result of attacks on several different services , not all of these attacks to the present time to make public statements . In any case , he believes, is the world's largest kidnapping credentials known to date.

On what grounds were abducted " uchetki " to Hold Security is not safe to say, however , according to the head company of selling information have user logins , email addresses and unencrypted passwords related to the services AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

It is possible to say Hold Security, hackers obtained data as a result of hacking dating services .

Moreover, among the proposed sale of information have credentials from corporate postal services "almost all companies of the Fortune Global 500" , which includes the 500 largest companies in the world by revenue.

Hackers often collect usernames and passwords , user infecting PCs with malicious software , however, according to Holden , in this case could hardly be used in this method of attack as " a huge amount of data must comply with a certain number of compromised computers ." An array of stolen data in the last days , says Alex Holden shows that hackers changed tactics , shifting their focus from individual users to large services .

Until now, the biggest leaks user data was considered last year's incident in the company Adobe, which was lost at 150 million user accounts.

Case with Adobe was exacerbated by the fact that the company uses to encrypt passwords used a relatively simple method without hashing .

The largest case of theft of credit card data is considered malware infection BlackPOS trading terminals American retail chain Target, which resulted in the copied data on approximately 110 million payment cards , including their encrypted PIN- codes. Fact hacking retail chain Target confirmed in December 2013