ethan Posted June 18, 2016 Report Share Posted June 18, 2016 That's a bloody sad news man, please change your your password immediately if you have any account in below sites. 45 Million Accounts Hacked At Some Of The Biggest Car Forums 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derick Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 That's a scary news and thankfully I use a useless pw all across these online social media and forum sites. Btw you know which sites were those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adil Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 Just read above link and it's one of the reference link stating.... https://www.leakedsource.com/blog/verticalscope Passwords were stored in various encryption methods but less than 10% of the domains which account for a very small amount of leaked records used difficult to break encryption (less than a couple million). Most of the records (over 40 million) were just MD5 with salting and this is insufficient. The following table shows the top passwords used by VerticalScope Network users. There seem to be a lot of automated registrations and you can easily see that they own many automobile forums. Rank Password Frequency 1 123456 150,852 2 18atcskd2w 91,103 3 password 83,862 4 3rjs1la7qe 74,806 5 indya123 62,453 6 q0tsrbv488 62,308 7 india123 62,296 8 110110jp 57,746 9 sojdlg123aljg 52,406 10 thegreat123 49,068 11 123456789 42,073 12 pass1478 39,962 13 d1lakiss 33,177 14 111111 29,850 15 qwerty 25,059 16 yagjecc826 21,975 17 rjgo7we138 21,492 18 12345678 20,703 19 mustang 20,600 20 g9l2d1fzpy 19,842 21 megasecret 16,834 22 2h7vkzo266 15,945 23 ektuhi1234 15,917 24 r9lw4j8khx 15,188 25 tester01 14,966 26 abc123 14,794 27 password1 14,719 28 iw14fi9j 14,319 29 freeze112 13,939 30 vqsablpzla 13,603 31 123hfjdk147 13,386 32 12345 13,115 33 6v21wbgad 12,517 34 letmein 11,946 35 1234 11,785 36 uqa9ebw445 11,729 37 yuantuo2012 11,369 38 asdfasdf 11,255 39 qti7zxh18u 11,220 40 yamaha 11,186 41 monkey 11,047 42 nks230kjs82 11,011 43 iojsjd9887 10,791 44 corvette 10,763 45 paintball 10,433 46 lookatme123 10,295 47 mongd123 10,052 48 welcome123 9,729 49 fake1234 9,639 50 shadow 9,611 51 baseball 9,603 52 harley 9,357 53 sara2000 9,303 54 abcd1234 9,218 55 w5txn36alfw 9,162 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adil Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 This is just a list of forum that AutoGuide has....... and many others groups were there. http://www.autoguide.com/forums.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 It's surprisingly easy to do too. A guy showed me a simple program once, he added a list of all the usernames then a list of all the most commonly used passwords then the program starts trying all combinations and before you know it, you have access to the majority of peoples accounts. There's not much you can do to protect yourself. I use different passwords for every site I use as if they get one of them, at least they don't have access to all my accounts everywhere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taqir Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 6 hours ago, adil said: There seem to be a lot of automated registrations Why there is an automated registrations? From spammers or hackers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 Advertising spambots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taqir Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 12 minutes ago, Technician said: Advertising spambots Means....? I am sorry I didn't get that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 Advertising spambots. They're programs that automatically create accounts on forums and post spam adverts in the sub forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandan Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 9 hours ago, adil said: you can easily see that they own many automobile forums. With this automated registration sounds like they were automatically creating fake users to rig the advertising payout as advertiser like to display their ads in forums that has thousands or millions of users instead of forum that has few hundred count. Spambot posting backlinks is now thing of past, as many modern forum software's blocks such users registration automatically. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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