Russian Hackers amazes the world by stealing 1.2Billion Usernames and Passwords.

Russian Hackers have amassed the largest known cache of stolen internet credentials, including 1.2 billion unique user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses. The large-scale theft was discovered by US-based firm Hold Security, which says the hackers stole information from 420,000 websites.

The news was first reported by ‘The New York Times’, which cited research from Milwaukee-based Hold Security. The firm didn't reveal the identities of the targeted websites, citing nondisclosure agreements and a desire to prevent existing vulnerabilities from being more widely exploited.

A credential pair is a combination of user id (mostly e-mail) and password.  Of these 1.2 billion are unique, according to Hold Security, which adds that the gang would have had to break into over 420,000 web and FTP sites to amass the impressive hoard. While 4.5 billion credentials may seems like an astronomical number, Hold Security researchers said that it’s not surprising given how many sites require registration through email addresses.

This may lead to disastrous future of online-life of every person under the sun. CNet (owned by CBS) is usually the first to break news about website hack-attacks. A Russian Hacking group posted a tweet on 12 July making it clear that it had hacked into CNet’s servers and stolen user data and this way Russian hackers made their way of blocking people to be aware of security breaches.

As of 6^th August 2014 6pm, it was observed that 1.25Billion was the Russian Hackers could achieve. Those 1.25Billion may include the username and password of those who are reading this right now. Be aware and secure yourself.

To be secured, change your passwords of all your mailing-accounts and social networking accounts. Use secure passwords, like c5ult1m4t35 for csultimates, 4dm1n/@dm1n for admin etc. Stop saving your passwords in your browsers, esp Mozilla Firefox. FIREFOX USERS, kindly update your browser as the previous versions of Mozilla Firefox are more vulnerable and it may help hackers to collect all your saved passwords.