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Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Cyber security firm, Hold Security LLC,
has found personal data of more than 105 million records stolen from
almost 360 million accounts and 1.25 billion email addresses. All of
this stolen data has been put up for sale on the online black market by
hackers. It is reportedly the biggest data breach in cyber history.
Hold Security said, that "These
credentials can be stolen directly from a company as well as from
services in which companies entrust data. In October 2013, Hold Security
identified the biggest ever public disclosure of 153 million stolen
credentials from Adobe Systems. One month later we identified another
large breach of 42 million credentials from Cupid Media."
The firm has accumulated the data over
the past three weeks and tracked over 300 million abused credentials
(which were not disclosed publicly). Hold Security says that the email
addresses included the ones from internet giants like Google, Microsoft
and Yahoo, as well as many non-profit organizations and almost all
Fortune 500 companies.
"The sheer volume is overwhelming," said Alix Holden, chief information security officer of Hold Security.