Google, Facebook. Twitter: 2 million passwords stolen - Chip Online

security experts of the company Trustwave have found on the Web at 2 million stolen passwords. The data was not encrypted on a server in the Netherlands, was part of a botnet called Pony. Among the stolen credentials were among other things, 318,000 records for Facebook, Google 70,000 accounts, 60,000 Yahoo accounts and 22,000 Twitter accounts.
At least Facebook and Twitter indicate that they have the affected accounts already locked. Affected users have to set a new password at the next login attempt. An analysis of found passwords, shows that about one-third are really bad, about the style of the most used password “123456″. At this point the urgent recommendation, first to use secure passwords and secondly to use passwords in no case more than once. (jg)