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33 Million Plaintext Passwords Stolen From QIP.ru Instant Messaging Service

  • 8 September 2016
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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Security breach appears to have taken place in 2011

 
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Sep 8, 2016 20:30 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu Hackers have stolen over 33 million user records from QIP.ru, an instant messaging service used predominantly in Russia.
 
Softpedia received a sample of the data from HEROIC, a cybersecurity startup that protects users from hackers and cyber threats.
 
The company claims to have received the data from a hacker using the Jabber ID daykalif@xmpp.jp. This hacker is the same source of the recent Last.fm and Rambler.ru breaches.

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Just terrible how this is the third site to post passwords in plain text. Any site should a least take action into protecting user's passowrds these encryption techniques. Sadly for these sites they didn't.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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@ wrote:
Just terrible how this is the third site to post passwords in plain text. Any site should a least take action into protecting user's passowrds these encryption techniques. Sadly for these sites they didn't.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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This has been going on like this for a long time now, I have lost count of the amount I have seen where they have been posted in plain text.

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