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Russian Hacker Selling 1.5 Million Facebook Accounts

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1242 Million Facebook Accounts tweets Million Facebook Accounts 04/23/10 by Jolie O’Dell A hacker who calls himself Kirllos has obtained and is now offering to sell 1.5 million Facebook IDs at astonishingly low prices — $25 per 1000 IDs for users with fewer than 10 friends and $45 per 1000 IDs for users with more than 10 friends — according to researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense. Looking at the numbers, Kirllos has stolen the IDs of one out of every 300 Facebook users. Information for sale includes login credentials; whether or not the e-mail addresses and passwords are legitimate is currently unknown.

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