Hackers exposed the personal data of 73 million people to the dark web

The hacker group ShinyHunters hacked the databases of ten large companies and gained access to the personal information of 73 million people. The stolen data is already being sold on the dark web for a total of about $18. Details about the incident shared ZDNet publication.

Each database is sold separately. To prove the authenticity of the stolen information, the group made part of it publicly available. According to ZDNet, the information posted actually belongs to real people.

Hackers hacked the databases of ten companies, including:

1. Online dating service Zoosk (30 million records);
2. Chatbooks printing service (15 million records);
3. South Korean fashion platform SocialShare (6 million posts);
4. Home Chef food delivery service (8 million records);
5. Minted Marketplace (5 million records);
6. Chronicle of Higher Education online newspaper (3 million entries);
7. South Korean furniture magazine GGuMim (2 million entries);
8. Medical journal Mindful (2 million entries);
9. Indonesian online store Bhinneka (1,2 million entries);
10. American edition of StarTribune (1 million entries).

The authors of the ZDNet publication contacted representatives of the above companies, but many of them have not yet been in touch. Only Chatbooks responded and confirmed that its site was indeed hacked.

The same group of hackers hacked Indonesia's largest online store, Tokopedia, a week earlier. Initially, the attackers released the personal data of 15 million users for free. Then they released the full database with 91 million records and asked for $5000 for it. The hacking of the current ten companies was likely encouraged by previous success.

The activities of the ShinyHunters hacker group are monitored by many cybercrime fighters, including Cyble, Under the Breach and ZeroFOX. It is believed that the hackers in this group are somehow connected to the Gnosticplayers group, which was especially active in 2019. Both groups work according to an identical scheme and post the data of millions of users on the darknet.

There are dozens of hacker groups in the world, and the police are constantly looking for their members. Recently, law enforcement agencies in Poland and Switzerland managed to arrest hackers from the InfinityBlack group, which was engaged in data theft, fraud and distribution of tools for carrying out cyber attacks.

Source: 3dnews.ru