New Delhi: After Myspace and Tumblr, as many as 32 million Twitter accounts may have been compromised and their credentials sold on the dark web.
LeakedSource, a site for hacked information, revealed that it received the information about the breach from an alleged hacker who uses the alias '[email protected]'. It is the same alias used by the person who had given the search engine hacked data from Russian social network VK.
The hack puts to risk account credentials of 32,888,300 Twitter accounts containing email addresses, usernames, and passwords.
LeakedSource wrote in its blog that the user credentials were collected by malware infecting browsers like Firefox or Chrome. Many of the affected users appear to be in Russia because six of the top 10 email domains in the database acquired by LeakedSource are in Russian including mail.ru and yandex.ru.
The hacked data further reveals the most predictive passwords were still being used by a large number of users including '123456' which showed up in the database 120,417 times and 'password' appeared 17,471 times.
Twitter is yet to comment on the mega breach.
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