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The recently unearthed website of a service specializing in selling access to compromised email and social networking accounts of Russian and Ukrainian users offers a fascinating glimpse into just how much one such account is worth to spammers.
Wannabe spammers and social engineers can choose to buy accounts by the service, and should be ready to pay 190 rubles ($5.9) for 100 compromised Vkontakte accounts belonging mostly to Russian users, or 180 rubles ($5.6) for the same number belonging to mostly Ukrainian users.
Facebook accounts are somewhat cheaper - 500 for 200 rubles ($6.2), and the same number of compromised Twitter account can be had for 250 rubles ($7.7).
Read more to find out how others are earning money with your stolen data, you should:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13275
