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Botnet Hacks Email Of Millions Of Germans
- Gigaom, Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:16 PM
The German information security ministry has warned the country’s citizens that many of them have been caught up in a massive botnet. Around 16 million people’s information – email addresses and passwords, mostly – was found to have been pilfered by the botnet, which presumably monitored the activities of its victims, and more than half of those email addresses ended in “.de”, denoting German users.
