Russia's largest email services, Yandex and Mail.Ru, were both hit
with password leaks recently, resulting in millions of passwords
published openly online and heated discussions in Russian web
communities. The companies claimed the passwords were obtained through
phishing scams on the users’ end rather than hacking attacks on their
servers.
Yandex was the first to fall, when Habrahabr.ru, a popular tech and internet news forum, first published news of the password leak. User lagudal said he discovered the file with 1.2 million Yandex email logins and passwords on the Infosliv
forum, a traditional leak dump space. Some of the other Habrahabr.ru
users investigated the file and found their Yandex account information
there, proving the database was at least in part real.
Such a massive password dump inevitably caused a commotion in the
RuNet and invited witticisms based on Yandex's search engine slogan,
“Найдётся всё” (Anything can be found).
The purpose of this page is to provide awareness to individuals and organizations that are leaking information and the information of their customers. The entities listed on this site are verified to be leaking personal information sometimes without the company even being aware. SLC Security is now owned and operated by Jigsaw Security Enterprise. We are currently in process and as such this blog will eventually be taken offline and merged with Jigsaw Security resources.
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