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p>FBI searches for hacker after 1.2 million logins were stolen

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p>25 November 2015

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p>FBI connects hacker to 1.2 billion stolen internet credentials, the largest heist of this type.

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p>According to Reuters news agency, court documents submitted by the bureau in the last fiscal year name the hacker as "mr.grey".

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p>The hacker was linked via a Russian email address to the stolen logins.

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p>In the past, "mr.grey" had advertised the credentials to Facebook and Twitter accounts on the market for sale online.

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p>It was the American cyber security firm Hold Security that initially reported the theft of the credentials as well as an additional 500 million email addresses in the past year.

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p>According to Hold Security, CyberVor?, the Russian crime ring that stole the data, was responsible for hacking more than 420,000 websites.

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p>In August, the firm stated, "To the best of our knowledge, they mostly focused on stealing credentials and ending up with the largest cache of stolen personal information that totals over 1.2 billion unique passwords and e-mails."

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p>Hold Security began to market a "breach notification" service to users who were concerned about their information being compromised. The cost was $120 (PS71) per month.

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p>Botnet breach

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p>Whatever the culprit of CyberVor?'s hack is, the method used was a departure from the method that botnets (large networks of computers connected maliciously) are utilized, according to Dave Palmer of Darktrace, director of technology.

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p>"What's interesting about this is botnets are often utilized to exploit their massive scale to target an individual person or target, like taking down computer games consoles at Christmas time, for instance," he told the BBC.

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p>"It's instead been used as a huge scanner scanning websites all around the globe for weaknesses."

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p>Mr Palmer added that the vulnerabilities that allowed computers to be entangled into botnets, as well as the flaws in websites that meant login details could be hacked were preventable.

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p>He said, "We're still being caught out by these attacks."

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p>Online leaks of US government logins

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