Stolen domain admin login credentials can be resold by dark web criminals for up to £95,000 and a total of 15 billion purloined credentials are traded on illicit marketplaces.
Or so says threat intel biz Digital Shadows in a study published today, which it said equates to roughly two login details for every human on the planet today.
Rick Holland, CISO and strategy veep of Digital Shadows, mused: "The sheer number of credentials available is staggering and in just over the past 1.5 years, we've identified and alerted our customers to some 27 million [leaked] credentials which could directly affect them...
"Details exposed from one breach could be re-used to compromise accounts used elsewhere. The message is simple – consumers should use different passwords for every account and organizations should stay ahead of the criminals by tracking where the details of their employees and customers could be compromised."
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