773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old
Since a few weeks ago I receive spam emails threatening me with an old password I no longer use. I wonder if it's related to this collection. It starts with:<p>> <i>I am well aware [old password I think I swapped out everywhere, but definitely in all important places, when I started to use random keepass pws two years ago] is your pass words. Lets get straight to the point. None has compensated me to check about you. You don't know me and you're most likely wondering why you are getting this e-mail?</i><p>He continues to tell me my computer was hacked using that password, he downloaded my contacts, recorded me watching porn and now threatens me to send that video to all my contacts. Of course unless I send him bitcoins for about $1000 to 1EiJMyvw2NP6T6vyWQ81HgUfBUVT1mqZkM<p>I got multiple of these emails in my spam folder since December. The password comes most likely from the Heroes of Newerth leak back in 2014!<p>It's obviously a scam no one should respond to, but I'm sure there is a large enough number of people that get intimidated enough and are actually buying and sending bitcoins. This is a real threat these collections create. To be honest I feel uneasy about this email though I'm 100% sure this password is not used for anything important since about two years ago. I can't imagine how someone with a current password and no security/compsci knowledge at all would feel.<p>I unfortunately deleted all but the last of this emails, so I wonder if he reuses the same bitcoin address and it can be easily blacklisted by authorities. If he is smart he generates a different address for every single email.