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> A computer discovered by the Sacramento County Sherrif's Department, which was thought to belong to Philip Porembski, was found to contain more than 160,000 F
by metachris 16y ago
> A computer discovered by the Sacramento County Sherrif's Department, which was thought to belong to Philip Porembski, was found to contain more than 160,000 Facebook login credentials, as well as automated scripts to access Facebook and send messages.
I wonder how they got login credentials from 160k users in the first place.
- biot 16y agoThe image in the article gives the clue: http://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/porembski.jpg http://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/porembski.jpg Probably an initial small-scale phishing attack from fake accounts, then as others fall victim, use their credentials to spam all their friends. Rinse and repeat.
- wladimir 16y agoI guess 160k logins could be pretty easily got from a botnet/worm/trojan that logs site login credentials.