LIST OF USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS PASSWORD

VANEK SMITH: So, like, if you buy someone's, like - I'm looking at Best Buy - costs $13. They go to use their points, and they're like, I don't have any points I don't really know what's going on. KREBS: (Laughter) One of the longest-running scams is the points.

LIST OF USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS PASSWORD

And what are you doing with these passwords if you buy them? So if you - if I buy someone's David's Bridal password for ten bucks, like, what am I doing with it? There's Costco for 15, David's Bridal for 10. But for others, it can be kind of hard to know why anyone would be interested.

Some account information like bank account passwords are obviously valuable. VANEK SMITH: But in this case, instead of blenders, people are buying stolen usernames and passwords. KREBS: It looks like a pretty nicely indexed e-commerce site where you might go and buy, you know, blenders or whatever it is you want to buy.

VANEK SMITH: Krebs got this particular list from a site called Seller's Paradise. VANEK SMITH: And you spend a lot of time on the dark web. I got a copy of this list from an investigative journalist named Brian Krebs.Д«RIAN KREBS: Author of the website. This list comes from a site on the dark web where people buy and sell stolen usernames and passwords. And next to each company name is a price. It has banks and airlines and clothing stores. It is four and a half pages long, and there are a bunch of company names on it all in alphabetical order.

STACEY VANEK SMITH, BYLINE: I have in front of me a list. Stacey Vanek Smith from our Planet Money team got a look into the market place for stolen passwords. Those credentials are valuable to hackers, and they're for sale online. Most of us have a long list of usernames and passwords to sign into accounts online - eBay, Amazon, Expedia.

List of usernames and passwords