http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/07/even-script-kids-have-a-right-to-be-forgotten/
By Brian Krebs
Krebs on Security
July 18, 2014
Indexeus, a new search engine that indexes user account information
acquired from more than 100 recent data breaches, has caught many in the
hacker underground off-guard. That’s because the breached databases
crawled by this search engine are mostly sites frequented by young
ne’er-do-wells who are just getting their feet wet in the cybercrime
business.
Indexeus boasts that is has a searchable database of “over 200 million
entries available to our customers.” The site allows anyone to query
millions of records from some of the larger data breaches of late —
including the recent break-ins at Adobe and Yahoo! – listing things like
email addresses, usernames, passwords, Internet address, physical
addresses, birthdays and other information that may be associated with
those accounts.
Who are Indexeus’s target customers? Denizens of hackforums[dot]net, a
huge forum that is overrun by novice teenage hackers (a.k.a “script
kiddies”) from around the world who are selling and buying a broad variety
of services designed to help attack, track or otherwise harass people
online.
Few services are as full of irony and schadenfreude as Indexeus. You see,
the majority of the 100+ databases crawled by this search engine are
either from hacker forums that have been hacked, or from sites dedicated
to offering so-called “booter” services — essentially powerful servers
that can be rented to launch denial-of-service attacks aimed at knocking
Web sites and Web users offline.
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