620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites now for sale on dark web, seller boasts

[leroux]

Some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are on sale from today on the dark web, according the data trove's seller.

For less than $20,000 in Bitcoin, it is claimed, the following pilfered account databases can be purchased from the Dream Market cyber-souk, located in the Tor network:

Dubsmash (162 million), MyFitnessPal (151 million), MyHeritage (92 million), ShareThis (41 million), HauteLook (28 million), Animoto (25 million), EyeEm (22 million), 8fit (20 million), Whitepages (18 million), Fotolog (16 million), 500px (15 million), Armor Games (11 million), BookMate (8 million), CoffeeMeetsBagel (6 million), Artsy (1 million), and DataCamp (700,000).

Some of the websites – particularly MyHeritage, MyFitnessPal, and Animoto – were known to have been hacked as they warned their customers last year that they had been compromised, whereas the others are seemingly newly disclosed security breaches. In other words, this is the first time we've heard these other sites have been allegedly hacked. This also marks the first time this data, for all of the listed sites, has been peddled publicly, again if all the sellers' claims are true.

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[rslade]

> leroux (Contributor II) posted a new topic in Tech Talk on 02-12-2019 03:24 AM

> Dubsmash (162 million), MyFitnessPal
> (151 million), MyHeritage (92 million), ShareThis (41 million), HauteLook (28
> million), Animoto (25 million), EyeEm (22 million), 8fit (20 million),
> Whitepages (18 million), Fotolog (16 million), 500px (15 million), Armor Games
> (11 million), BookMate (8 million), CoffeeMeetsBagel (6 million), Artsy (1
> million), and DataCamp (700,000).

My, my. Look at all the trouble I *didn't* get into, because I'm an old dinosaur
and don't join every new social media site that comes along. (Actually, I have
*heard* of Artsy, via my wife, who doesn't have an account there, but does know
of some craftspeople who do ...)

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[Caute_cautim]

When will we ever learn?

Funding the dark forces in their criminal activities?

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