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.
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.
Data was collected from data breaches of popular websites including:
- 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);
- DataCamp (700,000).
While some of the above websites are known to have been hacked (i.e. MyHeritage,...(continued)
