16 Million Fortune 500 Passwords Added to Dark Web in 12 Months

guest · Oct 30, 2019

16 Million Fortune 500 Passwords Added to Dark Web in 12 Months
October 30, 2019
https://www.cbronline.com/news/stolen-user-credentials

“password”, “passw0rd” and “password1” remain popular choices…
Web security company, ImmuniWeb says there are now over 21 million (21,040,296) stolen user credentials belonging to Fortune 500 companies available on the Dark Web – over 16 million (16,055,871) of which were compromised during the last 12 months.

The kicker? A massive 95 percent of the credentials contained unencrypted, or already bruteforced and cracked by the attackers, plaintext passwords, the company says.

The technology, financial services and energy sectors are the top three industries with the largest volume of credentials exposed, with 42 percent of the stolen passwords “somehow related either to the victim’s company name or to the breached resource in question, making password bruteforcing attacks highly efficient.”

Ilia Kolochenko, CEO and Founder of ImmuniWeb, said: “These numbers are both frustrating and alarming. Cybercriminals are smart and pragmatic, they focus on the shortest, cheapest and safest way to get your crown jewels.
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