Patent Document ID: 9092782
Application ID: 13537506
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for evaluating compromised credentials, comprising the steps of: obtaining collected data regarding previously compromised credentials that were used to commit an unauthorized activity, wherein said collected data regarding previously compromised credentials comprises attributes of a drop zone where an attacker stored said previously compromised credentials; applying, with at least one hardware device, one or more statistical learning methods to said collected data regarding previously compromised credentials to identify one or more patterns in attributes of said previously compromised credentials; generating, with said at least one hardware device, a risk score indicating a probability that the previously compromised credentials will be used to commit one or more additional unauthorized activities, wherein said risk score is based on said patterns and said attributes of said drop zone; and ranking the previously compromised credentials based on the risk score generated for each credential from the previously compromised credentials, wherein said attributes of said drop zone comprise one or more of an age of said drop zone, an age of records from said drop zone and an average number of new compromised credentials added per day to said drop zone.