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Over 4,500 logins uploaded to open source content site

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Dissent

Dan Raywood reports:

Over 4,500 logins have been published on a 77 page document on a shared content website.

Chris Boyd, malware researcher at Sunbelt Software, claimed that as Scribd allows users to share written content online, converting PowerPoint, PDFs and Word documents into web documents that can be viewed through sites such as Facebook and other social networking services, it was inevitable that a scammer would decide to use such a service for foul means.

Read more on SC Magazine.


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