Russians steal passwords 1.2 billion

A group of Russian hackers have managed to steal about 1.2 billion passwords belonging to more than 500 million email addresses, this is indicated by 'Security Hold', a U.S. company specializing in the detection of violations.

'Security Hold' described this event as the largest theft of data known to date. So far no details have been affected companies by hacking. The aim of the hackers were not only big companies but also different individuals.

"From this theft are affected hundreds of thousands of pages on the web. The list is long and includes many companies almost worldwide, as well as a large number of small or personal page, "the report 'Security Hold'.

"New York Times", which first reported the news, said a security expert regarding 'Security Hold' analyzed the database of stolen credentials and confirmed it was authentic.

Another cyber crime expert who had reviewed the data, but can not discuss them publicly, said some large companies were aware that their records were among the information stolen.

Dmitri Alperovitch, the most senior cyber technology firm CrowdStrike told 'Reuters' stolen passwords that can be used to access other accounts, because people usually use the same passwords for different sites.