$25: The Going Rate On The Black Market For Your Email Address

August 26, 2011

The going rate for a batch of one million US email addresses: $25. One-and-a-half million addresses from England sell for $100. And email addresses from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and Australia are available for the right price.

In addition, there were significant spikes in malicious web content this quarter corresponding to intensive malicious campaigns, particuarly in the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, South Korea, China and Germany.

That’s according to McAfee’s second quarter Threats Report published this week. Read more