FACEBOOK, GMAIL, YAHOO: 2 MILLION STOLEN PASSWORDS

Computer security experts announced , Wednesday, Dec. 4 , he discovered that two million passwords on sites like Facebook , Google , Twitter and Yahoo had been stolen from users around the world .

Researchers blog " Trustwave 's SpiderLab " made ​​the discovery while investigating a server in the Netherlands which cybercriminals were using to control a vast network of computers known by the nickname of "Pony botnet ."

Have you heard ? Researchers stumbled upon SpiderLabs @ 2 million stolen credentials : http://t.co/6kBh6sR89Z | http://t.co/Z1H9RHS2CC

- SpiderLabs (@ SpiderLabs ) December 4, 2013

" 123456 " , the word of the current flows more

The stolen information users were found in the server and experts warned the largest of some 90,000 sites and internet service providers affected. This involved more than 326,000 Facebook accounts 60,000 Google accounts , Yahoo accounts 59,000 and nearly 22,000 Twitter accounts.

The victims were , among others, the United States, Germany , Singapore and Thailand.

Facebook and Twitter have announced changed the passwords of the accounts involved .

An analysis published on the blog " SpiderLab " shows that the password the most commonly used is "123456" , who was one of about 16,000 accounts. The other words are frequent password "password ", " admin", " 123 " and "1 . "