A Verisign internet security group entitled iDefense has found that a hacker is attempting to sell one and a half million social networking usernames and passwords, and the more friends an account has, the more expensive the account. This is an unprecedented type of sale and could be the result of all the phishing scams that have been recently occurring. The hacker claims to live in New Zealand, although other rumors put him in Russia, and he apparently already sold 700,000.
The hacker’s name is Kirllos and has a pricing scheme for the accounts. When an account has less than 10 friends, the price is $25 for 1000 accounts (or 2.5 cents per user). When an account has over 10 contacts, he’s asking for $45 for 1000 accounts (or 4.5 cents per user). The director of intelligence at iDefense, Rik Howard, had this to say: ”There are two things that make this discovery interesting: the volume of social network account credentials discovered, and the fact that we are seeing an eastern European hacker dip into western social networks. In the past, most hackers have been content to stay with their own local social networking services.”
The likely goal, says iDefense, is to use the data to set up fraudulent accounts and identities which can be used to create bank accounts, make money transfers and also steal other people’s identities and use that to their advantage. The fact that employees use their Facebook at work also means that there is the potential for illegitimate users to access some of that corporate information, although the technology behind that isn’t yet clear. We’ll see how this progresses, and whether this is the real deal, but if so, and at prices like that, we can expect more Facebook hackers to appear in the coming years.
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some one thift my acount on the runescape!!@!@
Comment by Facebook User — April 26, 2010 @ 9:17 am
wow, this is scary stuff!
Comment by adelaide dj — April 26, 2010 @ 4:09 pm
It's a bad thing to sell stolen accounts, but one has to be said:
Kirolls is a good business man. He even has a pricing strategy
Cheers
Al
Comment by Aldo Gnocchi — April 27, 2010 @ 3:06 am
Why they are doing this:-??
Comment by Margret — April 27, 2010 @ 8:34 am
I don't doubt this one bit. If you play any of the Zynga games on Facebook, the Facebook feeds are just jammed up with phishing scam applications promising you everything from game pieces to Zynga game reward points if you click on their application and complete a survey, provide them with all the contacts on your friends list, etc., to get the promised "reward". There are several going around at any given point in time on the FB feeds. Sometimes the FB "feeds" are so thick with phishing scam apps that you can't see the legitamate info you went there to view in the first place! Facebook doesn't seem to screen apps. when they are first generated so scam artists don't get up and running in the first place. Or else they do a really poor job of it, letting in international criminals to prey upon the clientele they say they want more of, and value so much. It takes days for FB to respond when users catch on to the phishing/hacking scam apps. and report them to FB. Then the same old scam applications, generated by the same people who did the last one, pop up again a few days later, under a slightly different name, and it's just business as usual for the phishing/hacking scam artists. Personally, I'm getting real sick of it all and I wish FB would do something to tighten their security for their users welfare!
Comment by Sharalyn Zander — May 11, 2010 @ 12:05 pm
u have to a sad person any way if u use facebook,get out and get a life,
Comment by gypo — July 26, 2010 @ 2:48 am
Do you know how to contact him , need his help
Comment by tashlb — October 26, 2010 @ 9:08 pm
How do we contact Kirllos??????
Comment by tashlb — October 26, 2010 @ 9:09 pm
Can any one Hack this Account please [ tabasum036@yahoo.com ] on face book .this man is going to blackmail me .i requst please any one do this .
Comment by shakoor — March 17, 2011 @ 11:16 am