Why Two Million Social Media Accounts Were Hacked

Researchers at Trustwave Spiderlabs uncovered a widespread hack on social media accounts. The evidence points to the use of weak passwords.

With all the fear about having your social media accounts hacked, and networks implementing stronger security protocols, you’d think people would get smarter about choosing their passwords. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Case in point, researchers from security firm Trustwave Spiderlabs uncovered a huge hacking database that stole usernames and password data from two million users. The majority of the credentials were from social media accounts, with 57 percent of them coming from Facebook.

The researchers found the information on a server in the Netherlands, with a lot of the info coming from Dutch, Thai, German, Indonesian and Singaporean accounts.

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