iDefense: 1.5 million Facebook accounts for sale

[the_poet]

In a worrying development for Facebook users concerned about security, iDefense Labs has found a hacker offering 1.5 million Facebook user accounts for sale on an underground hacker forum.

The accounts are being offered by a user called Kirllos who was operating using the Russian language, VeriSign unit iDefense said in a statement on Thursday. iDefense was unable to verify whether the accounts are legitimate.

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Single login can equal to complete disaster.

 

[Chicken]

I remember reading on another site the 1.5 was made up of bogus accounts with incomplete profiles and 1-2 friends.

 

[Eric]

I remember reading on another site the 1.5 was made up of bogus accounts with incomplete profiles and 1-2 friends.

Either way I think it's a good idea to change passwords. Mine is now 16+ characters (letters, numbers, punctuation, etc).

 

[andr69]

And what will happen to the owners of these accounts?