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"More cyber criminals are entering into the game at a quicker pace than quite honestly we can keep up with."

A gang of hackers in Russia has amassed 1.2 billion sets of looted user names and passwords, according to a U.S. data security company. Trend Micro Chief Cybersecurity Officer Tom Kellerman speaks on “In The Loop.”

A Russian gang stole an estimated 1.2 billion username/password combinations and, along the way, the criminals also amassed more than 500 million email addresses.

Last night’s New York Times scoop that a gang of criminal hackers deep in the Russian hinterlands had amassed more than 1 billion usernames and passwords linked to half-a-billion email addresses demonstrates both that the Web is increasingly dangerous for consumers and that Russia remains a safe zone for hacking networks, analysts told MC.

The biggest challenge for the gang of hackers in Russia said to have amassed 1.2 billion sets of user names and passwords, wasn’t actually stealing them. It’s putting that data to use.