Over 600 mn account details stolen from 16 websites

Hackers have made available on the dark web details of some 617 million accounts stolen from 16 websites including ShareThis, Dubsmash and MyFitnessPal among others, The Register reported.

It’s claimed that databases, which are aimed at making "life easier" for hackers, can be purchased from the Dream Market cyber-souk, located in the Tor network, for less than $20,000 in bitcoin. The stolen information mainly includes account holders’ names, email addresses and passwords.

The price appears to be relatively cheap as the information is targeted at spammers and credential stuffers who could use the it to get access to other sites for which the users use the same usernames and passwords. Some of these websites -- MyHeritage, MyFitnessPal and Animoto -warned customers last year that they had been compromised, others have started notifying users about hacks.