32 million Twitter passwords apparently leakedJune 9, 2016 - 18:23 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Some 32 million Twitter passwords have apparently been leaked - but the social media website has denied being hacked, Digital Spy said. The login details appeared to have been obtained by hackers from malware. A Twitter spokesperson said (via TechCrunch): "We are confident that these usernames and credentials were not obtained by a Twitter data breach – our systems have not been breached. "In fact, we've been working to help keep accounts protected by checking our data against what's been shared from recent other password leaks." To help keep people safe and accounts protected, we've been checking our data against what's been shared from recent password leaks. — Twitter Support (@Support) June 6, 2016 We have investigated reports of Twitter usernames/passwords on the dark web, and we're confident that our systems have not been breached. — Michael Coates ஃ (@_mwc) June 9, 2016 LeakedSource blogged that it received a total of 32,888,300 records from a person, which included email addresses, usernames, and passwords. Russia appeared to be heavily affected, while the most common password was '123456' (120,417 accounts), followed by '123456789' (32,775 accounts), 'qwerty' (22,770 accounts), and 'password' (17,471 accounts). Photo: Getty Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |