In 2013, a Russian crime has the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials. The records, discovered by Hold Security, include confidential material gathered from 420,000 websites, including household names, and small Internet sites. Another computer crime expert who had reviewed the data said some big companies were aware that their records were among the stolen information. In October, federal prosecutors said an identity theft service in Vietnam managed to obtain as many as 200 million personal records, including Social Security numbers, credit card data and bank account information from Court Ventures, a company now owned by the data brokerage firm Experian.Like other computer security consulting firms, Hold Security has contacts in the criminal hacking community and has been monitoring and even communicating with this particular group for some time.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-said-to-amass-more-than-a-billion-stolen-internet-credentials.html?_r=0
