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June 9, 2016 08:10 am GMT

Someone is selling 33 million Twitter passwords on the dark web

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Twitter's account hacking woes aren't about to end any time soon. 

Days after a number of prominent Twitter accounts got hacked — including those belonging to musicians Katy Perry and Drake as well as Twitter co-founder Evan Williams — nearly 33 million Twitter usernames and passwords are being sold online. 

According to LeakedSource, a site that collects databases of stolen login credentials for a number of sites, the 32,880,300 Twitter credentials are being sold by a person identified by the alias Tessa88. Zdnet reported that the price Tessa88 is asking for the entire database (which allegedly contains 379 million records, but likely has many duplicates) is 10 bitcoins, or about $5,800 at the time of writing.  Read more...

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