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The latest is legitimately scary: Russian hackers stole 1.2 billion unique username and password combinations – that’s nearly the population of China – and more than 500 million e-mail addresses, according to a New York Times story.

The hackers are a tight knit group, 10 or 11. They live in a Russian town, and have real jobs. But in their down time, the cybercriminals have spent the past seven months gathering a hoard of personal data, stealing 1.2 billion usernames and passwords in a series of Internet heists affecting 420,000 websites.

A B.C. security expert says alphanumeric passwords and PINs should eventually be replaced with images.