Stolen Twitter accounts going for $1,000

A stolen Twitter account with a few hundred followers can go for as much as $1,000 at an underground hacker forum, said researchers from Kaspersky Lab. Of course, the value affixed to Twitter accounts appears to be disproportionately high, though it's by no means all that hackers are interested in. In fact, any accounts that can be leveraged for committing fraud, hacking bank accounts, or identify theft are fair game.

The list includes Gmail, RapidShare, Skype, and Facebook credentials, all of which can be exploited for financial gains. And when the value of stolen credit card data and other information is added up, Kaspersky Researcher Dmitry Bestuzhev said that hackers can "easily" rake in $1,000 worth of data from a single hacked computer.

For more:
- here's the Computerworld article

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