Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Most of us have a long list of usernames and passwords to sign into accounts online - eBay, Amazon, Expedia. Those credentials are valuable to hackers, and they're for sale online. Stacey Vanek Smith from our Planet Money team got a look into the market place for stolen passwords. STACEY VANEK SMITH, BYLINE: I have in front of me a list. It is four and a half pages long, and there are a bunch of company names on it all in alphabetical order. It has banks and airlines and clothing stores. And next to each company name is a price. This list comes from a site on the dark web where people buy and sell stolen usernames and passwords. It is a price list. I got a copy of this list from an investigative journalist named Brian Krebs. BRIAN KREBS: Author of the website krebsonsecurity.com. VANEK SMITH: And you spend a lot of time on the dark web. KREBS: Yeah. It's kind of an occupational hazard. VANEK SMITH: Krebs got this particular list
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