Hacker allegedly linked to Anonymous dumps 583,000 email addresses

A hacker going by the name of AnonSabre late last week leaked just over 583,000 credentials (email addresses and passwords) from the Israeli Web portal Walla. The site is one of the most popular in the country, providing its users with news, search, and email services.

The leak was first uploaded as 93 Pastebin links listed in a separate Pastebin post. The links in question are dead at the time of writing but not before they were republished elsewhere.

The leaked credentials were first found by PwnedList, a service that helps users figure out if their account credentials were stolen as part of a hack. The company crawls public sites where hackers post stolen data and then indexes all the login credentials it finds, a number which is currently over 30 million. We got in touch with PwnedList to verify the Walla hack, and indeed none of the dumped Walla addresses matched existing credentials in the company’s database.

“We discovered the Walla data leak through one of the automated harvesters that we had monitoring the hacker community,” PwnedList co-founder Steve Thomas told TNW. “We found out that we had only identified part of the leak, so we manually tracked down the rest of the leak, 93 files overall. The data leak included 583,083 credentials. The passwords were hashed and salted, but the salts were leaked as well. From what I have seen, there weren’t any other major pieces of data included in the data leak, such as names or addresses. However, those impacted by the data leak should still be concerned about their credentials, and be on the lookout for an increased number of phishing attacks.”

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