Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts 193
Sir Codelot writes "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 1,000 IDs for users with fewer than 10 friends and $45 per 1,000 IDs for users with more than 10 friends. Looking at the numbers, Kirllos has stolen the IDs of one out of every 300 Facebook users. Quoting: 'VeriSign director of cyber intelligence Rick Howard told the New York Times that it appeared close to 700,000 had already been sold. Kirllos would have earned at least $25,000 from the scam. Howard told the newspaper that it was not apparent whether the accounts and passwords were legitimate, but a Russian underground hacking magazine reported it had tested some of Kirllos' previous samples and managed to get into people's accounts.'"
I'll take them (Score:5, Funny)
I can increase the size of my friend network and be the biggest star on the net!
That's my chance... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Translation (Score:3, Funny)
NOOO! (Score:3, Funny)
What is going to happen to my beautiful farm :(
Re:Great PoE (Score:4, Funny)
The wonderful thing about his product though, is that he can keep selling it even after he has sold it.
He doesn't have 1.5 million accounts to sell once, he has 1.5 million accounts to sell over and over and over. He may only be able to get $50k for the lot, but he can sell them all a dozen times. Depending on if they catch him or not, and how effective they are at getting people to change their passwords (the only way to make the accounts worthless), this guy could make half a million dollars or more pretty easily.
Not if I'm the first to buy them and change the passwords on the accounts....
Re:Great PoE (Score:3, Funny)
In other news, FB has slashed prices on IDs to their spamverstisers!
Re:Can someone please tell me... (Score:5, Funny)
2. ???
3. profit!
Re:Translation (Score:5, Funny)
And charge a fee. Remember, in the financial industry, you're criminally stupid if you don't make money off the mistakes of those around you. That's American capitalism for you.
Re:Translation (Score:5, Funny)
As if you needed a password to get the data of a Facebook account...
Dude, just ask Zuckerberg nicely. You’re by far not the first one he sold account data out to.
Re:Play with fire (Score:1, Funny)
It's a pretty ugly and annoying baby, though.
Re:Great PoE (Score:4, Funny)
Are you impugning the dignity of this entreprenuer? A man's word is his bond, and the most valuable asset he possesses. I'd be surprised if he isn't contacting legal counsel to initiate legal action against you for defamation of character as we speak!
Re:Play with fire (Score:2, Funny)
"I'm sorry [NAME], I can't let you do that." is a reference to HAL 9000 of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame.
Not get off my lawn!
Re:Translation (Score:1, Funny)
I lost you as soon as you said corporations had a "moral obligation". You must live in a fantasy world where Gigantor is ready to fight for right, against wrong. Gigantor.
Re:Translation (Score:5, Funny)
Dude! Five digit ID. I am not losing my slashdot account!