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JUNE 29, 2021

A new massive LinkedIn breach made the headlines, a database containing data of 700M users, more than 92% of the total 756M users, is available for sale on forums on the dark web. Passwords are not included in the archive. “We reached out directly to the user who is posting the data up for sale on the hacking forum. .

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites (Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis) available for sale on the dark web. The Register revealed in exclusive that some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are available for sale on the dark web. “I need the money. .

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AUGUST 4, 2024

On April 8, a threat actor that uses the moniker of USDoD announced the sale of a “National Public Data” database on a dark web forum. billion individuals, they put the data up for sale for $3,500,000. ” Researchers from VX-underground reviewed the archive (277.1GB uncompressed) and confirmed the that data is real and accurate.

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APRIL 20, 2020

Over 267 million Facebook profiles are offered for sale on dark web sites and hacker forums, the dump is offered for £500 ($623) and doesn’t include passwords. Hackers are offering for sale over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums, the archive doesn’t include passwords.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Cybernews investigated a data sample available for sale containing up-to-date mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users. The dataset for sale also allegedly has nearly 10 million Russian and over 11 million UK citizens’ phone numbers. Original post published by Cybernews: [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

billion entries but is also willing to split the archive into smaller portions for potential buyers. billion phone numbers, which were allegedly scraped from breached Clubhouse servers, was put for sale on a hacker forum. billion phone numbers of #Clubhouse users is up for sale on the #Darknet. A database of 3.8 The post 3.8

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AUGUST 17, 2024

On April 8, a threat actor that uses the moniker of USDoD announced the sale of a “National Public Data” database on a dark web forum. billion individuals, they put the data up for sale for $3,500,000. “On Researchers from VX-underground reviewed the archive (277.1GB uncompressed) and confirmed the that data is real and accurate.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Archived Data Stolen 2 Months After Sale of Business Affects Patients, Employees A defunct ambulance company is notifying nearly 912,000 patients and employees that their archived records were compromised in an early 2023 data theft hack.

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JANUARY 3, 2021

Hackers offered for sale on the dark web data belonging to 538 million Weibo users, including 172 million phone numbers. Over 267 million Facebook profiles are offered for sale on dark web sites and hacker forums, the dump is offered for £500 ($623) and doesn’t include passwords. The archive was managed by the U.K.-based

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Russia-linked APT group was observed using a specially crafted ZIP archive that runs a script in the background to show a PDF lure while downloading PowerShell code to fetch and execute a payload. “In the context of this particular attack, a script is executed, generating a PDF file featuring the lure theme of a BMW car for sale.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The experts offered for sale the huge trove of data for a limited period of time. Now the same hacker is offering in a third round a new set of databases containing millions of hacked accounts from several websites, like previous ones Gnosticplayers has been made available for sale on the Dream Market black marketplace.

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JULY 14, 2020

The MGM Resorts 2019 data breach is much larger than initially thought, a hacker is offering for sale details of 142 million MGM hotel guests on the dark web. “The new finding came to light over the weekend after a hacker put up for sale the hotel’s data in an ad published on a dark web cybercrime marketplace.”

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FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Researchers at the threat intel firm Recorded Future, have identified the hacker who amassed credentials in Collection #1 archive. Security experts at the threat intel firm Recorded Future, have discovered the hacker who allegedly created and offered for sale the massive collection known as Collection #1.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

TB of confidential business-related data, including pharmaceutical sales data, full names of Apodis Pharma partners and employees, client warehouse stock statistics, pharmaceutical shipment locations and addresses, and more. The archives include product data like product quantities and IDs, as well as warehouse data.

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JULY 12, 2021

Researchers from Cyber News Team have spotted threat actors offering for sale 600 million LinkedIn profiles scraped from the platform, again. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

The database is offered for sale in hacking forums, hackers claim to have begun to decrypt the passwords. The archive was discovered by the security researcher Jim Scott , the same expert that helped Have I Been Pwned to find a CafePress dump circulating i n the underground.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Experts found online an unsecured database owned by THSuite and used by point-of-sale systems in medical and recreational marijuana dispensaries. The archive was stored in an unsecured S3 bucket, it was discovered by researchers from VPNMentor and impacted 30,000 people. .

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Stolen data are now available for sale on multiple cybercrime forums. The attack was carried out by a group calling themselves Uawrongteam, who published links to archives and files containing IDs, driver’s licenses, photos. Threat actors compromised the FlexBooker accounts of more than 3.7

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NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Advantech has 8,000 employees worldwide and has reported a yearly sales revenue of over $1.7 On November 26, the ransomware operators began leaking the data stolen from Advantech, an archive of 3.03GB that accounts for 2% of the total amount of stolen data. billion in 2019.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Threat actors offered for sale an archive containing user details for one million SitePoint users on a cybercrime forum. The total volume of data available for sale is composed of 368.8 million stolen user records, 1 million records belong to SitePoint. ” reads the data breach notification share by El Reg.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Taiwanese manufacturer D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor offered for sale on BreachForums stolen data. The global networking equipment and technology company D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor earlier this month offered for sale on the BreachForums platform the stolen data.

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APRIL 12, 2021

A threat actor has put for sale on a popular hacker forum an archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles , with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by the post author. It does include publicly viewable member profile data that appears to have been scraped from LinkedIn.

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APRIL 11, 2021

“Days after scraped data from more than a billion Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, collectively speaking, was put for sale online, it looks like now it’s Clubhouse’s turn. The experts found an ad on a hacker forum offering for free a SQL database containing 1.3 million scraped Clubhouse user records. ” reported CyberNews.

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MARCH 17, 2024

The archive contains 73.481.539 records. ShinyHunters is a popular hacking crew that is known to have offered for sale data stolen from tens of major organizations, including Tokopedia , Homechef , Chatbooks.com , Microsoft , and Minted. It was leaked online today.” ” said vx-underground. .

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MAY 19, 2020

A hacker is offering for sale on a dark web forum a database containing 129 million records of car owners in Moscow. The archive doesn’t include car owners’ details, exposed data includes the car’s make and model, place of registration, and the date of first and last registration.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The advertising for the sale of the huge trove of data was published in the popular Dream Market black marketplace, data are available for less than $20,000 worth of Bitcoin. million Coffee Meets Bagel accounts (673 MB of data) were offered for sale. Coffee Meets Bagel learned of the incident on Feb.

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JUNE 12, 2019

The group is also offering for sale downloads of an album of the 18 hacked MiniDiscs for £18 and donating the proceeds to the Extinction Rebellion environmental campaign group. “The user described how someone claiming to have the archive came in contact with a “well-known leaker ” and offered them previews of the tracks.”

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MAY 13, 2024

The ZIP archives contain a compressed executable payload that, if executed, will start the encryption process with LockBit Black ransomware. In December 2021, experts at Check Point Research observed the resurgence of the Phorpiex botnet. The new variant, dubbed “Twizt,” could operate without active C2 servers in peer-to-peer mode.

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JUNE 7, 2020

“The origins of the incident date back to April 12th 2020, when a new data set titled, “Zee5 Premium” ( archived here ) emerged on Pastebin revealing email addresses and fullplaintext passwords of some Premium users.” The attacker threatens to expose the database and code in public for open sale soon.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2019

A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘ gnosticplayers ‘ is offering for sale the data on the Dream Market marketplace asking $14,500 worth of Bitcoin. Below the list of companies whose records are included in the second collection offered for sale in the dark web by the seller gnosticplayers : Ge.tt (1.56GB) (1.83

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

DATA IS FOR SALE” reads the message published by the extortion group on the leak site. They're extorting Sony — vx-underground (@vxunderground) September 25, 2023 MajorNelson leaked a compressed archive of 2.4 The RansomedVC group doesn’t deploy any ransomware on the victim’s networks. We wont ransom them!

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers discovered a new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) that is called BunnyLoader, which has been advertised for sale in multiple cybercrime forums since September 4, 2023. Stolen data are encapsulated into a ZIP archive and transmitted to a C2 server. On September 15, 2023 the authors released BunnyLoader v1.7

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MARCH 12, 2023

The threat actor is the same who recently offered for sale the data stolen from Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer. The Acronis leak contains multiple certificate files, command logs, system configurations, system information logs, filesystem archives, python scripts for the company’s maria.db

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

BriansClub, one of the biggest a dark web “carding store,” which specializes in the sale of stolen payment card data, has been hacked. . at ), one of the biggest black market sites, that specializes in the sale of stolen credit card data. million card records for sale, in 2016, 2.89 million stolen cards, 4.9 million in 2018.

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MARCH 30, 2024

The archive contains 73.481.539 records. “It ShinyHunters is a popular hacking crew that is known to have offered for sale data stolen from tens of major organizations, including Tokopedia , Homechef , Chatbooks.com , Microsoft , and Minted. It should be noted before anyone hits us with an “aktschually” – the data was stolen in 2021.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2020

In routine Dark web monitoring activity, the Cyber research team spotted a threat actor offering the database of BigBasket for sale in a cyber-crime market. The archive is 15 GB in size and contains 20 million user records, it is being sold for over $40,000.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Unfortunately, it is quite easy to find huge archives available for sale on the Dark Web and use data they contain to carry out credential stuffing attacks. Recently the popular cyber security expert Troy Hunt revealed the discovery of Collection #1 archive containing 773 million credentials, the huge dump was offered for just $45.

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