While they might spend most of their time sneaking into celebrity Twitter accounts to cause five minutes of minor hassle, every now and again those pesky ‘hackers’ will do something a little bit more destructive… like placing 20 million personal email accounts up for sale on the dark web, for example.
According to HackRead, a vendor going by the name of SunTzu583 (someone’s read Art of War) has placed a huge amount of decrypted Gmail and Yahoo accounts up for sale on the dark web; with most of the data stolen from breaches to Dropbox, Adobe, LinkedIn and Bitcoin security forum accounts.
A screenshot of one of the listings
Obviously this is will be quite concerning if you have accounts with either company, but according to HackReads a large amount of those being sold are inactive, with the mythical SunTzu583 mentioning that “Not all these combinations work directly on Gmail/Yahoo, so don’t expect that all these email and passwords combinations work on Gmail/Yahoo.”
Basically, change your password from ‘BigDog123’ and keep a vigilant eye on all of your email activity.
