In the professional community, the situation brings a smile: Computers from which data leaked onto the Internet were infected by the same ransomware viruses that often attack users. Moreover, amateur hackers, called so-called hacktivists, fell victim to their special tools.
Hudson Roc cited some statistics: Databases created from the leaked recordings were “pulled” from more than 100,000 computers, and the number of “login-password” packets from hacker forums exceeded 140,000. There were also other credentials in the public domain: email addresses, logins; autofill data such as names, addresses, phone numbers; system information, computer names, IP addresses.
Source: Ferra
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