A few months ago, security researchers at 4iQ uncovered a 41-gigabyte file being sold on the dark web that contained 1.4 billion username and password combinations from online services such as Netflix, Last.FM, LinkedIn, MySpace, Zoosk, YouPorn, Minecraft, Runescape, and others. Unfortunately, this is something that happens a lot. The sale of user credentials remains a very lucrative business, earning cybercriminals billions of dollars every year. This is because for a lot of us, the only thing standing between our online accounts and hackers is a username and password. This means as soon as they obtain our credentials from the…
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