14 DAY TRIAL // A sample from what seems to be a database with one million email addresses connected to Facebook popped up on Pastebin today.
The database has been uploaded by the user UGLEGION, who also exposed today a list of email addresses and plain text passwords that could belong to users of the Origin software distribution platform from game developer Electronic Arts.
The Twitter message announcing the breach says that Facebook has been evaluated and the result was a leak of one million emails, and a link to Pastebin is provided.
In a previous post the hacker taunted Facebook admins by asking if they really thought that the email information was safe, only to make it available online minutes later.
The Pastebin entry also contains a message for Facebook and it reads: “Facebook, simply because you brag about how secure you are, we'll just show you a bit of how you're not. Let this be a lesson learned. #UGLegion”
The dumped addresses appear to be not just from Google, Microsoft (Hotmail, MSN and Live) and Yahoo! but also from AOL and from Notre Dame de Namur University.
Facebook has been deemed, Greedy. 1million emails - breached from Facebook. http://t.co/hAnWxPFVzr #UGLegion @Cyber_War_News @HackRead
— UGLegion (@UGLegion) June 13, 2014[Update, June 14, 2014]: An EA representative told us via email that the Origin information "was an artificially-generated list" and it had nothing to do with Origin," so the Facebook breach could also be fake.