Kirllos, a person calls himself in the underground forum, a hacker is accused of being responsible for the theft of an unprecedented number of user accounts from Facebook. Researchers from iDefense group, company VeriSign, discovered recently that the hacker sold usernames and passwords on a networking forum through hacking. But what really drew attention was the amount of data that the criminal had for sale: 1.5 million accounts. The ratio of accounts will be simply 1 in 300 registered Facebook Account.

The VeriSign not yet confirmed if the bills sold in the forum are legitimate. Facebook has not commented on the situation. Second statement, if the data are real than Kirllos has the account information of about one in every 300 users of social networking. The price of market sales hacker ranges from $ 25 to $ 45 per thousand accounts, depending on the number of contacts for each user. According to the intelligence director’s cyber VerigSign, Rick Howard, yet the criminal seems to have sold about 700 000 accounts. “Hackers have sold the credentials of social networks for some time. We have seen an active trade names and passwords for VKontakte Russia, for example. But now the trend is to go behind global goals such as Facebook,” says Howard. According to security firm virtual, “Facebook has more than 400 million users worldwide. In the case of stroke, criminals send messages from a compromised account, telling friends that the owner is stuck in a foreign country and need money to go home, ”