More than 100 million accounts of Russian social network VK is defined as hacker attacks , taking information and transactions being underground .
Recently breach notification website LeakedSource discovered a hacker with the nickname Peace, is currently for sale information Bulk account belonging to social networking site VK black market.
Inspired by Facebook, the social network VK built and are especially popular in Russia. VK fully possesses the same features as Facebook, typical messaging functions, updating bulletin boards, profiles, personal photo library, shared systems, ...
This social network was founded by Pavel Durov - who have sold their shares in VK to create messaging applications Telegram. According to TechCrunch since 2014, VK has approximately 100 million users.
According to the motherboard, Peace hacker information currently offers a total of 100 544 934 data users, and part of which was held LeakedSource verify that include name, email address, phone number, and personal password. In the email address of 100 randomly selected LeakedSource, 92 corresponding account is now active on the VK, and password information that seemed pretty accurate.
In his announcement , Peace said user's password will be traded in the form of information is encrypted at the time of VK hacked network . Peace will agree to sell for $ 1 this data Bitcoin , equivalent to 570 USD according to the current price.
According to Peace , Russian social network VK has successfully hacked in mid- 2011 and 2013. At the time, Peace on hand and access information of about 71 million accounts , but decided not to sell them .
Durov founder and spokesman VK social network will not give any comment on the incident .