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A Hacker Has Dumped Nearly One Billion User Records Over the Past Two Months (zdnet.com)
A hacker who spoke with ZDNet in February about wanting to put up for sale the data of over one billion users is getting dangerously close to his goal after releasing another 65.5 million records last week and reaching a grand total of 932 million records overall. From a report: The hacker's name is Gnosticplayers, and he's responsible for the hacks of 44 companies, including last week's revelations. Since mid-February, the hacker has been putting batches of hacked data on Dream Market, a dark web marketplace for selling illegal products, such as guns, drugs, and hacking tools. He's released data from companies like 500px, UnderArmor, ShareThis, GfyCat, and MyHeritage, just to name the bigger names. Releases have been grouped in four rounds -- Round 1 (620 million user records), Round 2 (127 million user records), Round 3 (93 million user records), and Round 4 (26.5 million user records).
"500px, UnderArmor, ShareThis, GfyCat, and MyHeritage, just to name the bigger names." Other than underarmor, THESE are the BIGGER NAMES? Lol.
My pass phrase is 1kb long. Good fucking luck with that
I would be heavily in favour of the death penalty for this moron.
Perhaps if he's captured, someone can tattoo "Mohammad is a paedophile" on his back, tie him up naked in the middle of the night in a public place in the middle east and then let them deal with him after they discover him in the AM. Saudi Arabia might be a good place.
Two words: tear ifs
...People all over the world are continuously giving their data away to FaceBook for free.
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I've had my identity stole so many times
I don't know what I look like!
Until there's a fine of $1,000+ per personal information leaked (no mass discount and possible criminal charges), this will continue. Companies, even the size of Facebook, would face disappearing overnight and prison time. Then, they will seriously consider what data to keep for how long instead of hoarding all and leaking. With this, no need for the likes of GDPR and other legal swiss cheeses.
I really do find relaxing with some left-handed tinydick masturbation to a Marvel sequel really puts me in the right frame of mind to comment vapid consumerism on Slashdot and then mod myself up with dummy accounts. /Kendall
"wanting to put up for sale the data of over one billion users is getting dangerously close to his goal after releasing another 65.5 million records last week and reaching a grand total of 932 million records overall."
"Dangerously close"? I'm not going to argue that this isn't bad, but does something magical happen when he releases the data for the billionth user and reaches his goal that makes it especially dangerous? Shouldn't releasing records 932,000,001 through 1,000,000,000 be at _most_ about 6.8% as dangerous as all the records he's released already?
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Terrible news article whoever put this together should be getting a grilling from their supervisor, I can find price but where is the buy now link?
This appears to be the same person behind the "Collection #1" releases circa Jan 18th. it was just a collection of a bunch of older dumps i.e. data aggregated from other breaches. I didn't see any reason to think this person was behind all of the hacks, I got the sense he might also brag he could hack into any porn site on the Internet by putting in his mom's credit card number.
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Really. Don't do online payments, don't subscribe to news organizations, don't stream games, don't get email notifications, nothing. The only sort of safe exception is medical information under HIPPA.
Remember no organization is at risk if they leak your info. The cost of a breach is just factored into the cost of doing business. That's why HIPPA is an exception. Medical information leaks are treated extremely seriously and they can even cause an organization to be shut down.
The only one who is at risk if personal data becomes public is you. Organizations don't give a damn about you.
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"500px, UnderArmor, ShareThis, GfyCat, and MyHeritage, just to name the bigger names." Other than underarmor, THESE are the BIGGER NAMES? Lol.
IKR? Never heard of any of these short of UnderArmor and I haven't heard any news from that outfit for a long time.
You're messin' with my Zen Thing, man.....
Anything could be a 'user record'. I have been to all kinds of websites that demand I reveal personal information before I can interact with it. I often feed it a ton of bogus information. I couldn't care less if it gets stolen.
It's a HACKER who did done HACKING with his ebil HACKS!
You cannot possibly do anything against that. It's like the tsunami wave of the cyberspaces. HACKER, HACKING, with HACKS! So no, this is obviously force majeure as all security is impossible against HACKERS HACKING WITH HACKS.
The more you know.
You get much more fun junk mail if you claim your income's >$400,000; and your interests include hunting rifles and endangered species.
Would be good advice except for one small thing. The government leaks too, and one can't avoid being in their databases.
Dream Market got shut down after it was raided by the DEA so what in the fuck are you even talking about?
Technically speaking, how did hacker ‘gnosticplayers’ actually hack these companies?