{"id":3969,"date":"2016-11-13T19:12:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T00:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2016-11-13T19:13:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T00:13:42","slug":"facebook-is-buying-up-stolen-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/11\/13\/facebook-is-buying-up-stolen-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is Buying Up Stolen Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook is buying passwords from the online black market and comparing them to the passwords of the users. The list of passwords, captured in plaintext, goes through a hash function and compares the hash results to their user\u2019s hashed password. Allegedly Facebook doesn\u2019t store passwords in plaintext, when a user logs on the password entered it compared to the hash stored in the system for that user. Facebook does the same for the passwords it mines from the online black market. If a match is found, Facebook locks the account and hides the account from the public until the user changes his or her password. I\u2019ve seen this before somewhere else, in fact I was alerted to it through CSID, an identity protection company. CSID alerted me that the password for one of my monitored email accounts was found online in black market. I changed that password so fast.. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2016\/11\/11\/facebook-is-buying-up-stolen-passwords-on-the-black-market\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is buying passwords from the online black market and comparing them to the passwords of the users. The list of passwords, captured in plaintext, goes through a hash function and compares the hash results to their user\u2019s hashed password. Allegedly Facebook doesn\u2019t store passwords in plaintext, when a user logs on the password entered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[716936],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-11-it-risk","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}