Data Breach: Stolen User Records from 26 Companies Being Sold Online

Data Breach: Stolen User Records from 26 Companies Being Sold Online

A data broker has been allegedly selling stolen user data of twenty-six companies on a hacker forum. Reportedly, the hacker who has put on sale the stolen data for certain companies at a particular price – is yet to decide the pricing for the rest of the stolen databases. 

The hacker behind the sale has stolen a whopping total of 368.8 million user records majorly from companies that previously reported 'Data Breach', however, seven new companies that joined the list were – Sitepoint.com, Anyvan.com, MyON.com, Teespring.com, Eventials.com, ClickIndia.com, and Wahoofitness.com.

Dark Web and Hacking Forums keep making headlines for their notorious relationship with data brokers and hackers who extensively use these platforms to leak or sell databases containing user information/credentials/records acquired during data breaches of various companies worldwide who later confirm the breaches. However, in the aforementioned case, only MyON and Chqbook have confirmed the data breaches, the other six companies have not given any statement confirming that they have experienced a data breach.

In a conversation with BleepingComputer, while confirming that their networks were compromised, MyON.com said, "In July 2020 we were made aware of a bad actor trying to sell portions of our data on the dark web. We immediately began investigating to shut down any continued threats to our data or the data of our customers. We were then able to confirm that according to federal and state privacy laws, no confidential student or customer data was compromised, and this incident did not rise to the level of an actual breach of student private data."  

Whereas, while denying the claims of a data breach ..

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