BOSTON: Security
experts have uncovered a trove of some 2 million stolen passwords to
websites including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo from Internet
users across the globe.
Researchers with Trustwave's SpiderLabs said they discovered the credentials while investigating a server in the Netherlands that cyber criminals use to control a massive network of compromised computers known as the "Pony botnet."
The company told Reuters on Wednesday that it has reported its findings to the largest of more than 90,000 websites and Internet service providers whose customers' credentials it had found on the server.
The data includes more than 326,000 Facebook Inc accounts, some 60,000 Google Inc accounts, more than 59,000 Yahoo Inc accounts and nearly 22,000 Twitter Inc
accounts, according to SpiderLabs. Victims' were from the United States, Germany, Singapore and Thailand, among other countries.
Representatives for Facebook and Twitter said the companies have reset the passwords of affected users. A Google spokeswoman declined comment. Yahoo representatives could not be reached.
SpiderLabs said it has contacted authorities in the Netherlands and asked them to take down the Pony botnet server.
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Researchers with Trustwave's SpiderLabs said they discovered the credentials while investigating a server in the Netherlands that cyber criminals use to control a massive network of compromised computers known as the "Pony botnet."
The company told Reuters on Wednesday that it has reported its findings to the largest of more than 90,000 websites and Internet service providers whose customers' credentials it had found on the server.
The data includes more than 326,000 Facebook Inc accounts, some 60,000 Google Inc accounts, more than 59,000 Yahoo Inc accounts and nearly 22,000 Twitter Inc
accounts, according to SpiderLabs. Victims' were from the United States, Germany, Singapore and Thailand, among other countries.
Representatives for Facebook and Twitter said the companies have reset the passwords of affected users. A Google spokeswoman declined comment. Yahoo representatives could not be reached.
SpiderLabs said it has contacted authorities in the Netherlands and asked them to take down the Pony botnet server.
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