The data from MySpace, LinkedIn, Tumblr and Fling are offered for sale on The Real Deal, an underground marketplace hosted on a Tor hidden service, which obscures its real IP address. May was a rough month for some major online services: 165 million leaked LinkedIn accounts, 65 million from Tumblr and 41 million from Fling, all from data breaches that occurred years ago. "At the moment, there is a recurring pattern of very large breaches from a long time ago making an appearance," Hunt says. Troy Hunt, who runs the breach notification service "Have I Been Pwned?," says there are rumors of "other things in the pipeline with nine figures." See Also: OnDemand | Navigating the Difficulties of Patching OT But according to one expert, there may be more huge data breaches to be announced, and a posting on an underground website points in that direction. MySpace on Tuesday confirmed it is resetting accounts affected by the release of 360 million usernames, email addresses and weakly hashed passwords.
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