Accounts of over 100 million users of VK.com, Russia’s largest social network is being traded on the digital underground. A hacker who goes by the alias “Peace,” listed the date for sale on a dark web marketplace. Vice’s Motherboard publication reports that it received a dataset of over 100,544,934 records from Peace. From the report: According to Peace, the passwords were already in plain text when the site was hacked, and were not cracked at a later date. Peace is selling the data for 1 bitcoin, or around $570 at today’s exchange rates. Out of 100 randomly selected email addresses from the larger dataset, 92 corresponded to active accounts on the site, Motherboard found. A Russian friend contacted by Motherboard confirmed that the password was correct.The report adds that the actual hack occurred between 2011 and 2013, and that Peace has data of another 70 million users that it isn’t selling right now.

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Source: Slashdot – Over 100M Accounts of Russia’s Largest Social Network VK On Sale