The emphasis here is the word CLAIMS, we probably find out if it is genuine over the next few days.
February 29, 2016 By Joseph Cox
A hacker on the dark web forum Hell claims to have sold the email addresses and plaintext passwords of over 27 million users of dating site Mate1.com.
“Their server was compromised and the MySQL database was dumped,” the hacker, who asked to remain anonymous, told Motherboard. “I had shell/command access to their server.”
Motherboard obtained a relatively small sample of the email addresses and passwords. Out of 500 addresses, 498 were linked to accounts on Mate1.com. According to its website, Mate1 has over 36.5 million users.
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Another Day, Another Hack: Hacker Claims to Have Sold 27M Mate1.com Passwords
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Good point clams and actually has these email addresses remains to be seen. Boasting may only be scare tatics
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Mate1.com doesn't acknowledge the incident
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Mar 3, 2016 10:09 GMT · By Catalin Cimpanu Details for 27 million Mate1.com users were sold via the infamous Hell hacking forum, as a reporter for Vice Motherboard has discovered.
Mate1 data dump included cleartext passwords
According to a recent news report, a hacker posted an ad on the Hell underground hacking forum, saying that he was in possession of 27 million Mate1.com accounts, which he was willing to sell for 20 Bitcoins (~ $8,400 / €7,700).
Soon after the ad went up, at least one person bought the data, which the hacker said contained only email addresses and Mate1 passwords in cleartext.
The hacker explained in his ad that he broke into Mate1's MySQL server, from where he dumped all the user data. He says that, initially, he discovered details for around 40 million users, but after removing duplicates and bots, the number went down to 27 million. On its website, Mate1 claims to have 31.5 million registered users.
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Claiming and having is two different things........ in reality he may have less than stated.
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