The mail service of KPN’s Friday unreachable. The service has been taken offline after a large number of account details with passwords of KPN customers online. This would be in the hack have been captured.
Webmail.kpnmail.nl and pop3.kpnmail.nl since Friday afternoon is not accessible. KPN has the servers as a precaution taken offline after the publication of passwords of mail accounts, of customers. Further details of the company does not, as on previous questions about the hack of its systems, the answer is that the research is in full swing, and that KPN here no further statements.
Several people confirmed on Twitter, already for the offline fetch of the webmaildienst, that the account information is authentic. It is unclear to whom the data on Pastebin set, but it is clear that the hackers this wanted to demonstrate that there is no user data are captured. KPN denies this, but a source of Tweakers.net told that there is 16GB of data on a hacked server withdrawn.
It is unclear how the hackers the passwords. The published passwords are relatively simple and if the use of md5 hashes, are these easily using brute force to crack. It is also possible that the passwords are unencrypted, though this is not likely.
