FBI seeks hacker 1.2 million stolen passwords

Tech November 25, 2015 16:45

- US Federal Investigation FBI is looking for a hacker who has access to a whopping 1.2 billion stolen logins and passwords. Reuters reports that according to court documents filed it.

The hacker is at the FBI known as ' mr. gray ' and was linked to the stolen passwords are using a Russian email address. Mr. Grey would have advertised the sale of the login information via social media through social media like Twitter and Facebook. The data would come from some 420 000 different websites. According to security firm Security Hold it comes to the largest ever collection of these data.