Russian Hacker selling 1.5 million Facebook credentials!

[AlexOC]

Beware, lock away your children!

Also change your password.

A hacker who calls himself Kirllos has obtained and is now offering to sell 1.5 million Facebook IDs at astonishingly low prices — $25 per 100 IDs for users with fewer than 10 friends and $45 per 1000 IDs for users with more than 10 friends — according to researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense. Looking at the numbers, Kirllos has stolen the IDs of one out of every 300 Facebook users.Information for sale includes login credentials; whether or not the e-mail addresses and passwords are legitimate is currently unknown. Typically, this information would be sold for between $1 and $20 per account, according to data from Symantec. Currently, around 700,000 accounts have been sold. The threads where the accounts are being sold have been removed, as far as we are able to tell.
The users whose e-mail addresses and passwords have been compromised risk having their identities stolen, but they could also become targets of more insidious scams. As always, we will keep you updated about any Facebook scams that come across our news desk.
Hacking Facebook isn’t a new hobby for this person. Here’s a screenshot of another offer the hacker previously made on a forum earlier this year; then, he was then selling 100,000 hacked accounts from users around the world:


Kirllos also appears to have had an interest in iPhone applications at one point. According to some Antichat.ru forum users, he was born in Russia, lives in New Zealand, is 24 years old and speaks both English and French.
Facebook hasn’t yet responded to our request for comment, but it’s generally a good idea to change your password periodically. It’s also advisable to ensure that your social networking passwords are all different and to generate difficult passwords that include numbers, capital letters and special characters, if at all possible. Roboform, PassPack and KeePass are a few free or affordable resources to help you manage your online passwords in a secure fashion. We will update this post as more information becomes available.

http://mashable.com/2010/04/23/hacker-facebook/


YHIHF

[Recursion]

This better not be a stupid mistake at Facebook's end ;/

[Describe]

Trust him to be Russian!

[Jordy]

Hmm well something funny has been going on with my Facebook, I should take it more seriously but I don't know what to do. Over the past few weeks it keeps telling me that I just logged in from Canada and seeing as I'm in the UK it flags that up as odd. But the thing is, these hackers in Canada aren't doing anything to my Facebook account? My email accounts are all secure and I keep changing the password? Got me completely stumped tbh.

[xxMATTGxx]

Hmm well something funny has been going on with my Facebook, I should take it more seriously but I don't know what to do. Over the past few weeks it keeps telling me that I just logged in from Canada and seeing as I'm in the UK it flags that up as odd. But the thing is, these hackers in Canada aren't doing anything to my Facebook account? My email accounts are all secure and I keep changing the password? Got me completely stumped tbh.

Sometimes if you log into Facebook via your mobile then Facebook will tell you that you have logged in via another country regarding the mobile internet stuff. Which is pretty normal as it gives you an IP from that country If I remember correctly. Although I'm not sure if any UK carriers would use Canada though.

[Jahova]

Oh dear! Hope this doesn't concern me.

[LMS16]

And facebook was supposed to be SAFE...
Its a load of crap now, they probably have an apprentice who balls'd some code up lol...

Seriously.

Lew.

[Recursion]

And facebook was supposed to be SAFE...
Its a load of crap now, they probably have an apprentice who balls'd some code up lol...

Seriously.

Lew.

Mark Zuckerberg was coding again recently.. LOL

[Adamm]

And facebook was supposed to be SAFE...
Its a load of crap now, they probably have an apprentice who balls'd some code up lol...

Seriously.

Lew.

Nothing on the internet is safe. If you didn't know that, you shouldn't be using it really.

[AlexOC]

Nothing on the internet is safe. If you didn't know that, you shouldn't be using it really.

Yeah Lew, even people like Adamm are 60 year old men waiting to get your address.

Facebook still aren't commenting, buggers!