Security News > 2021 > September > Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts
A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer.
While the threat actor states that the exploited Fortinet vulnerability has since been patched, they claim that many VPN credentials are still valid.
Yesterday, the threat actor created a post on the RAMP forum with a link to a file that allegedly contains thousands of Fortinet VPN accounts.
At the same time, a post appeared on Groove ransomware's data leak site also promoting the Fortinet VPN leak.
While we did not test if any of the leaked credentials were valid, BleepingComputer can confirm that all of the IP address we checked are Fortinet VPN servers.
While BleepingComputer cannot legally verify the list of credentials, if you are an administrator of Fortinet VPN servers, you should assume that many of the listed credentials are valid and take precautions.
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