More than 65 million email addresses and passwords Tumblr are for sale on the Internet – SAPO Tek

More than 65 million passwords Tumblr for sale in the call deep web (an area of ​​the internet that escapes the indexing of search engines). The figure was revealed by an independent investigation conducted two weeks after the social network announced that in 2013, various personal data of users were obtained by others.

Troy Hunt, the digital security expert and creator of information portal on data breach Have I Been Pwned, obtained a copy of the register and told the Motherboard website that the document focuses 65,469,298 emails and hashed (a difficult coding process to reverse) passwords. Registration is to be sold in The Real Deal, an e-commerce portal, by a hacker that presents itself as Peace.

According to the same source, the register has little value given the coding made to passwords by Tumblr. On Motherboard, Peace said the document that state was no more than a mailing list and would not be worth more than $ 150.

Troy Hunt, in turn, believes that at least half of the passwords can be decoded.

Recently they have been made known several cases of unauthorized

access to private records of users, involving sites with millions of customers, such as LinkedIN. There is a worrying point that is common to many of these cases: happened long before the time they were revealed, leaving in the air the hypothesis that information already on sale or have been sold before the platforms involved assume they were targeted attacks

If you want to know if you are involved in any of the leaks have revealed, can use sites like Troy Hunt to confirm.