Mr. Grey, not again! A Reuter report has confirmed that the famous hacker Mr. Grey’s involvement in stealing 1.2 billion internet credentials.
Mr. Grey, who had got the access to user account information for websites like Facebook (FB.O) and Twitter (TWTR.N), now linked by the FBI through a Russian email address to the theft of a record 1.2 billion Internet credentials.
According to the documents, which were made public by a federal court in Milwaukee Wisconsin, the hacker was associated with a cybsecurity firm that announced in August 2014 that it had determined an alleged Russian crime ring was responsible for stealing information from more than 420,000 websites.
The investigation started last year when Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm obtained information that a Russian hacker group it dubbed CyberVor had stolen the 1.2 billion credentials and more than 500 million email addresses.
After that the FBI subsequently found lists of domain names and utilities that investigators believe were used to send spam.
It also discovered an email address registered in 2010 contained in the spam utilities for a "mistergrey".
Further, it found out posts of 2011 by the hacker stating that if anyone wanted account information for users of Facebook, Twitter and Russian-based social network VK, he could locate the records.
Alex Holden, Hold Security's chief information security officer, told Reuters this message indicated mr.grey likely operated or had access to a database that amassed stolen data from computers via malware and viruses.
