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Zoom Gets Stuffed: Here’s How Hackers Got Hold Of 500,000 Passwords

Posted on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 By Davey Winder

Earlier this month, 500,000 stolen Zoom passwords were put up for sale. Here’s how the hackers got hold of them

More than half a million Zoom account credentials, usernames and passwords were made available in dark web crime forums earlier this month. Some were given away for free while others were sold for as low as a penny each. Researchers at threat intelligence provider IntSights obtained multiple databases containing Zoom credentials and got to work analyzing exactly how the hackers got hold of them in the first place.

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