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Facebook Enters the Online Black Market to Buy Back Passwords
With years of high-profile hacks and huge numbers of stolen passwords already in the history books, it’s no surprise that there’s a black market on the web for dealing with this hacked data. What you might not know, however, is that the purchasers of such information aren’t always those with a malicious purpose. Rather than some spammer or botnet operator buying up your stolen password, it could actually be Facebook. Why would the social media giant head onto the dark web to purchase illegitimately obtained user information, though? The …