70GB Worth of Personal and Financial Data Uncovered In Torpig Botnet Hijack
A recent botnet hijack discovered that a hacker group made off with millions of data items.
10-days worth of information containing 10,000 bank accounts and credit card numbers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, was discovered by security researchers at the University of California, Santa Barabra. The discovery came about when the security researchers at the University broke into the Torpig botnet, associated with Mebroot or Sinowal.
The Torpig or Sinowal botnet, is one of the more sophisticated networks because it uses malicious software to infect computers in an effort to harvest information such as banking accounts, credit card numbers and email passwords. The researchers from the University were able to monitor more than 180,000 infected or hacked computers by exploiting a weakness within the hackers network that controlled the group of infected computers.
