Membership details of over 50 million users of defunct file-sharing service iMesh are for sale online, according to reports. Although its popularity slipped it remained a well-liked tool for many file sharers, until it abruptly shut down in May this year.

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Breach notification website LeakedSource says it obtained a copy of the database on the dark web. In total, 51, records are available, each containing a username, email address, https://passive-income.info/best-dating-coach.php, IP address, location and the date site user joined iMesh. The breach dates from SeptemberLeakedSource says. The vast majority of the breached accounts, nearly 14 million, are in the USA, followed by Turkey with 4 million and the UK with 3.

Poland and Italy complete the top five. According to LeakedSource the passwords opinion fossil dating techniques mine hashed and salted with the MD5 algorithm, which these days is very easy to crack.

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Even more worrying is the passwords used by many of the hacked accounts. Despite countless warnings about using strong, dating passwords, many users are still going for easy to remember passwords that are incredibly easy to crack.

The other factors would boil down to market pressures. There are other big breaches out there so in order to sell, imesh needs to be priced competitively.

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Those other breaches Malik mentions include LinkedIn and Twitterboth of which have recently been dealing with the fallout of user credentials being exposed. For now, anyone affected should change their password, not only for this account but also for any other website where they may have used the same password.

Spector added that he believes passwords are no longer an adequate form of security.