06.12 2M Stolen Passwords Discovered on Russian Language Website

WASHINGTON, December 5 (RIA Novosti) – Two million stolen passwords for popular websites, including Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and Google, have been discovered on a Russian language website by a US online security company.

Researchers for SpiderLabs, a division of Trustwave, found the stolen information while investigating a Netherlands-based server used by cyber criminals to control a huge network of computers that had been infected with malicious software.

They uncovered data from more than 326,000 Facebook accounts, 60,000 Google accounts, more than 59,000 Yahoo accounts and nearly 22,000 Twitter accounts, with victims based in countries around the world, SpiderLabs wrote on its blog.

The company also noted that thousands of accounts for two popular Russian language social media sites, Odnoklassniki and VKontakte, had also been compromised.