BusyDizzys

Never seems to end does it? I mean just today I had 2 mails telling me about how hackers are using some IP range or other and that Blizzard wanted me to secure my account by going to some link that was waaaay tooo long, and another apprantly also from Blizzard asking for my card details so they can check them against my account info. Funny thing is i've never ever played Warcraft or other Blizzard game. In this story a cache of login details of apprantly 44 million accounts was found, thats quite substantial when you think that the actual details are mearly just text (they was 17Gb in size!) and therefore only a few bytes in length and could be stored on/in just about anything easily. Could fax them out that would be fun. The Hackers in this case used a botnet of infected PC's to check that the accounts were valid, very clever :p

"Get to the choppa! Symantecs comin!!!" ;) :

"The haul, thought to have been harvested using Trojans with information stealing capabilities, took in data associated with a variety of online games and websites.Hackers had set up a system so that the relevant login details were checked using a botnet of PCs compromised with the Loginck Trojan, a strain of malware distinct from those that steal passwords and login details in the first place.The approach allowed cybercrooks to check whether accounts were valid or not before selling them via gaming websites. The approach allowed hackers to build up a 17GB stash of compromised accounts alongside extremely useful sales data such as gaming levels, all without breaking a sweat. Accounts that have reached higher levels of a game are worth far more than those of newbies."

Orig. article : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/28/symantec_gaming_hack_cache/

More info : http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/44-million-stolen-gaming-credentials-uncovered