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Indexeus exposes malicious hackers

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Dissent

The search engine indexes those websites which are frequented by the hackers.

Indexeus users can query millions of records from some of the larger data breaches, including Adobe and Yahoo. The results list information including email addresses, usernames, passwords, Internet address, physical address, birthdays and other information associated with the accounts.

The site said that it has logged 10 million entries and the number is growing. Security expert Brian Krebs said that the entries are around 200 million. He describes those behind Indexeus are “a gaggle of young men in their mid- to late-teens or early 20s –envisioned the service as a way to frighten fellow hackers into paying to have their information removed or ‘blacklisted’ from the search engine.”

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