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1 million passwords for sale on the Dark Web

<p>1 million passwords are now for sale on the Dark web marketplaces&period; The dark web can be used for illegal trading of weapons&comma; drugs&comma; stolen images or hacked data from companies that are usually offering Web services&period; The dark web cannot be accessed using well-known web browsers and is also hidden from popular search engines&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;login-1203603&lowbar;640&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-2045 size-full" title&equals;"passwords" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;login-1203603&lowbar;640&period;png" alt&equals;"passwords" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A seller called &&num;8220&semi;SunTzu583&&num;8221&semi; is selling 100K Yahoo accounts from the Last&period;FM data breach back in 2012&period; In this hack&comma; 43 million accounts were stolen and the price for 100K accounts is 0&period;0079 bitcoins that are equal to &dollar;10&period;75&period; Additionally&comma; 145K Yahoo accounts that were stolen in MySpace and Adobe breach that happened in 2008 and 2013 are also on sale for 0&period;0102 bitcoins or &dollar;13&period;75&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The largest number of accounts &lpar;950K&rpar; came from Gmail users&period; Gmail accounts that were hacked between 2010 and 2016 include Tumblr&comma; Bitcoin Security Forum and Dropbox breaches&period; Most accounts were hacked because of weak passwords usage and unfortunately&comma; many people are still using the same weak passwords for various online services&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A security report made by a mobile identity company Telesign in 2016 says that 73&percnt; of online accounts are using duplicate passwords&period; 54&percnt; of internet users use five or less passwords for all their online accounts&comma; while 47&percnt; of online users are using the same password that hasn&&num;8217&semi;t been changed in five or more years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;re concerned that your account might be compromised&comma; please visit <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;haveibeenpwned&period;com&sol;">HaveIBeenPawned<&sol;a> page&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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