Mr. Grey Hacker (Wanted by FBI) Steals 1.2 BILLION Login Passwords

That's a lot of Login credentials fetch by a single hacker.

The FBI believes a single hacker who goes by the moniker Mr.Grey has stolen login credentials for over 1.2 Billion online accounts – apparently the biggest heist of log-in credentials the FBI has investigated thus far.

Yeah, that's not Fifty, but 1.2 Billion Shades of Grey.

The information came from the court documents the federal agents submitted to support its search warrant request in 2014, Reuters reported.

The cyber security firm 'Hold Security' initially reported the theft of the credentials last year. It found out that Russian hacking group CyberVor has stolen 1.2 Billion login details and an additional 500 Million email accounts.

Botnet Breach

These data were said to have been harvested from over 420,000 websites via botnets looking for SQL injection flaws; the same technique recently used to hack TalkTalk.

Botnets are usually employed to attack an individual target, but in this case, they have been used as a huge scanner to scan websites on the Internet.