Shiny Hunters a Group of hackers Sold Over 73 Million User Record On Dark Web

Shiny Hunters a Group of hackers Sold Over 73 Million User Record On Dark Web

Shiny Hunters a Group of hackers Sold Over 73 Million User Record On Dark Web

The 'Shiny hunters' a group of hacker claims to have breached 10 companies and selling their user database on the Dark Web best marketplace for illegal product. The hack also target companies like Chatbooks ,SocialShare, Minted , online publication chronicle of Higher Education, magazine like GGumim and Minfdul, ZDNet reported More than 73 million user records have been stolen from a number of online services and are being sold on the dark web for a total of  $18,000.

HIGHLIGHT

• Hackers Breached 10 well known companies and stole user records 
• The group, called 'Shiny hackers' stole more than 73 million records 
• Zoosk had 30 million records which is stolen also StarTribune has 1 million.
• All these Data are sold on the Dark Web for $18,000.

The group Shiny Hunters they were earlier involved or responsible for hacking into the database of GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft over 1200 Database were stolen. The group had also hacked into the user data of 90 million users  people through Tokopedia, which is Indonesia's Largest online stores, This data was earlier sold.

Shiny Hunters a Group of hackers Sold Over 73 Million User Record On Dark Web

Shiny Hunters a Group of hackers Sold Over 73 Million User Record On Dark Web

Additionally, the information of 22 million users on Unacademy was reported sold by the group on the Dark Web.

COMPANIES WERE  BREACHED 

• Online Dating App Zoosk : 30 million
• Printing Service Chatbooks : 15 million
• South Korean Fashion Platform Social Share : 6 million 
• Food Delivery Service Home Chef : 8 million 
• Online Market place Minted : 5 million 
• Online newspaper Chronicles of Higher Education : 3 million 
• South Korean Furniture Magazine GGuMim : 2 million 
• Health Magazine Mindful: 2 million 
• Indonesian Online Store Bhinneka ;  1.2 million 
• US newspaper StarTruibune : 1 million 

The attack was conducted though the phishing emails to employees, which gave the digital thieves access to the within the company . The firm said that no payment or Credit Card Information were compromised, but is urging users to change their password immediately. 

With the legitimacy of some database couldn't be verified and samples from the breach matched real records. Researchers in the community says that Shiny Hunters was authentic


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