Our comments seem to be geared towards figuring out the mechanism and not the motive. While this can lead to the greater picture, I wonder if we can make an assumption.
There were ~55k user:passwd leaked.
And while a large subset may come from specific regions, it's hard to say if they all do.
But we already have a connection between all accounts, (obviously) they were all hacked and released together. (Pretty strong connection).
So then the number might allude to an effort of some scale for some unknown reason.
Currently and besides the legitimate users of the accounts, only one entity has "taken damage" from this "leak". Twitter
So anyone care to continue this line of thought?
midstreamEdit: NYtimes is saying it's a retaliation hack.
There were ~55k user:passwd leaked.
And while a large subset may come from specific regions, it's hard to say if they all do.
But we already have a connection between all accounts, (obviously) they were all hacked and released together. (Pretty strong connection).
So then the number might allude to an effort of some scale for some unknown reason.
Currently and besides the legitimate users of the accounts, only one entity has "taken damage" from this "leak". Twitter
So anyone care to continue this line of thought?
midstreamEdit: NYtimes is saying it's a retaliation hack.