Aussie accounts among 26.6 million user logins stolen by cyber crooks since 2018
Thousands of Australians are among the five million people whose personal data has been stolen by cyber criminals in the last five years, a new study has found. Cyber crooks were able to use bots to steal 26.6 million usernames and passwords since 2018, with the sensitive data of 10,000 Australians impacted, according to the NordVPN study. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: How to safely store and manage your passwords. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> Among the logins were details for 720,000 Google accounts , 654,000 Microsoft profiles and 647,000 Facebook logins , which are then sold on a bot market for an average price of $6 each. The study, which analysed three major bot markets — Genesis, the Russian market and 2Easy — also found Netflix, Paypal, Amazon, Instagram and Apple Store logins listed for sale. Experts say criminals use data-harvesting bot malware that steals logins together with cookies and device configuration information — the combination of which he...