Twitter also posted on its account that it is auditing its data against recent database dumps. Twitter suggests that users follow the suggestions in its help center to keep their accounts secure. “A number of other online services have seen millions of passwords stolen in the past several weeks. We recommend people use a unique, strong password for Twitter,” a Twitter spokesperson said. In a statement to TechCrunch, Twitter suggested that the recent hijacking of accounts belonging to Zuckerberg and other celebrities was due to the re-use of passwords leaked in the LinkedIn and Myspace breaches. An analysis of the VK data also turned up similar results. The most popular password, showing up 120,417 times, was “123456,” while “password” appears 17,471 times. Zuckerberg was ridiculed for appearing to reuse “dadada” as his password on multiple sites, but results from LeakedSource’s data analysis shows that many people are much less creative. Many of the affected users appear to be in Russia-six of the top 10 email domains represented in the database are Russian, including and .Įven though Mark Zuckerberg got several of his non-Facebook social media accounts hacked this week, including Twitter, his information wasn’t included in this data set, LeakedSource claims. LeakedSource has added the information to its search engine, which is paid but lets people remove leaked information for free.īased on information in the data (including the fact that many of the passwords are displayed in plaintext), LeakedSource believes that the user credentials were collected by malware infecting browsers like Firefox or Chrome rather than stolen directly from Twitter. LeakedSource says the cache of Twitter data contains 32,888,300 records, including email addresses, usernames, and passwords. Other major security compromises which have hit the news recently include a Myspace hack that involved over 360 million accounts, possibly making it the largest one ever, and the leak of 100 million LinkedIn passwords stolen in 2012. LeakedSource, a site with a search engine of leaked login credentials, said in a blog post that it received a copy of the user information from the same alias used by the person who gave it hacked data from Russian social network VK last week.
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