Tracking the Password Thieves

The Washington Post ran a story I wrote about an epidemic of data theft being fueled by password-stealing viruses and phishing attacks. I based the story in part on a cache of stolen data I found online. The data was being compiled by a password-stealing virus that had infected many thousands of computers worldwide; the particular text file that I found included personal information on 3,221 victims scattered across all 50 U.S. states.

Read the article HERE.