THE NEXT WEB – Mar 1 – Hacker swipes 27M passwords from Mate1.com. A hacker on 'Hell', a dark web hacking forum, claims to have gained access to the passwords, which he says he later sold. The asking price was 20 bitcoin ($8,7K). It appears Mate1.com hosted the password files in plaintext without any hashing.
by Bryan Clark
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Summarized by the Courtland Brooks team