Over 100M Accounts of Russia's Largest Social Network VK On Sale (vice.com) 28
Accounts of over 100 million users of VK.com, Russia's largest social network is being traded on the digital underground. A hacker who goes by the alias "Peace," listed the date for sale on a dark web marketplace. Vice's Motherboard publication reports that it received a dataset of over 100,544,934 records from Peace. From the report: According to Peace, the passwords were already in plain text when the site was hacked, and were not cracked at a later date. Peace is selling the data for 1 bitcoin, or around $570 at today's exchange rates. Out of 100 randomly selected email addresses from the larger dataset, 92 corresponded to active accounts on the site, Motherboard found. A Russian friend contacted by Motherboard confirmed that the password was correct.The report adds that the actual hack occurred between 2011 and 2013, and that Peace has data of another 70 million users that it isn't selling right now.
well.. (Score:1)
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A million different reasons. Some noble, some sinister, some mercantile.
The list goes on.
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Enlighten me as to who IS a straight player??
"Trust, but verify" would imply those who are open to external inspections.
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Yet they take my money outta the tax pile.
Why would russian trolls be paying taxes in the US?
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Surprisingly (Score:5, Funny)
The most common password after 'password1' was 'dadada'. Wonder what that's all about?
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The most common password after 'password1' was 'dadada'. Wonder what that's all about?
it means yesyesyes
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The most common password after 'password1' was 'dadada'. Wonder what that's all about?
it means yesyesyes
So based on dating attempts, most Russian slashdotters would use the pw "nyetnyetnyet"?
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, Social Network owns YOU!
Oh wait, they're all like that.
Carry on.
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maybe do not eat insecurity potato.
Okay, I confess- that made me laugh.
(SJWs- please advise me if I should feel guilty about laughing at this horrible depiction of Russians, and the cultural appropriation it surely embodies.)
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>please advise me if I should feel guilty about laughing at this horrible depiction of Russians, and the cultural appropriation it surely embodies
No SJW, but a Russian here. The "maybe do not eat insecurity potato" is pretty much against the core principle of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]' and thus very un-Russian. Perhaps cultural misappropriation is of better describings here, comrade.
Here's another example from Russian vernacular. "If you have a bottle of vodka that looks weird, has label badly gl
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The Wikipedia URL mentioned should have ended with a %27 which capitalist Slashdot decided to change into a apostrophe outside the link for some reason. Nekharasho.
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PORN! (Score:2)
VK is where I search for my porn. There's some wild and crazy stuff on VK.
Data for sale (Score:1)
See Slashdot front page ad for details...
I can see what happens next. (Score:2)
I'm expecting the Russian media to start claiming the hack was orchestrated by the CIA as part of a plot to undermine Russian culture, weaken their economy and make it easier to monitor their communications.
At this point, I wouldn't be too surprised if they were right.