If you have been using the internet for years and have accounts created in multiple online services, it is very likely that your password is circulating in the Dark Web. There are many services that have been hacked in the last decade and could be for sale on the deep web.
A recent study of the company Digital Shadows has discovered that there are up to 15 billion passwords leaked in the Dark Web, even for large and safe services like Dropbox, LinkedIn and Adobe.
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Likewise, this company has spent 18 months analyzing how hackers manage to access stolen accounts and how it is cheaper and easier than ever for cybercriminals, who also access administrator accounts, bank accounts or streaming services.
There are so many stolen accounts, that many of them are simply shared for free in the hacking forums, or even appear on the normal web in pages like Pastebin. Many of the accounts are repeated, but the researchers found that at least $ 5 billion of the account credentials for sale are unique.
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The most expensive passwords offered on the Dark Web They belong to business managers and can sell for $ 120,000, the average manager costs $ 3,139, bank accounts have an average price of $ 70.91. The same goes for streaming services like Netflix, Spotify, VPN, etc., whose price is less than 10 dollars.
The researchers claim that the reason there are so many accounts in the Dark Web it is because people use very weak passwords. The hackers They know what the most common passwords are, and therefore they only have to make automated login attempts by combining emails and hack passwords already known.
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