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MANILA, Philippines – Russian email provider Mail.ru is casting doubt on the authenticity of the 272 million “stolen” email credentials reported by Reuters on Thursday, May 5.
Motherboard reported that the 57 million emails reportedly taken from Mail.ru were made up of email and password combinations that did not work.
Alex Holden, Hold Security’s founder, also clarified that the data appeared to be a “collection of different breaches.”
The hacker also appeared to be inflating the value of his trove of stolen credentials. While the hacker originally passed 1.17 billion credentials to Hold Security, only 272 million were unique. Of those, only 42 million were credentials Hold Security hadn’t seen before.
According to Holden, it was more likely the collection of credentials was an accumulation of older data breaches, picked up and sold for easy money – in this case, $1.
While data breaches are likely the norm in terms of cybersecurity, there’s still a hierarchy of importance. Some data breaches may not even be real data breaches, meaning, not every data breach is equal in the eyes of cybersecurity experts. – Rappler.com
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