Moniker: Two more stolen LLL .com domains point to organized crime ring

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Only the tip of the iceberg appeared yesterday, when the mass breach of Moniker accounts was outlined.

Several valuable domains, including LLL .com’s, were stolen by what appears to be an organized crime ring of brazen thieves.

After gaining access to a potentially unencrypted list of usernames and passwords at Moniker, the thieves spent two weeks – from September 18th, to October 3rd, cherry-picking the best domains from the list they were able to compose.

Some of these domains were pushed to other Moniker accounts with bogus information, before being transferred out to other domain registrars. In the process, domains at GoDaddy were stolen as well, as their owners shared the same account credentials across both registrars.

We can now identify ZRZ.com and BRX.com as stolen. Do not buy them if someone offers them for sale, at any price.

So far we have not heard from Moniker, that clearly needs to fire their security team and restructure the company in a manner consistent with established domain registrars.

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