Re: Russian Hacker story in today's news

["Slocum, Stacy" <sslocum () SJFC EDU>]

Forgot to add:  The Terms of Service are only visible after you have registered.

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Slocum, 
Stacy
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 8:58 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Russian Hacker story in today's news

Good morning,

A news story caught my attention this morning regarding the 1+ billion user accounts being collected by "Russian 
Hackers" over the last 18 months.

The story is based on Hold Security's news release dated yesterday (8/5/2014).  As I read Hold Security's release this 
seems to be more of a marketing ploy to sell services combined with a credential collection scheme of their own.  
Additionally their Terms of Service must be agreed to before registering for their "trial" service of matching your 
credentials with those from contained in the breach database and they offer to let you know if your password was also 
in the breached data... after you provide it to them...

Does this seem odd to anyone else?

Thanks,
Stacy

Stacy Slocum
Chief Information Officer
St. John Fisher College
3690 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618
(585) 385-8388