The group of hackers going by the online handle of ShinyHunters is behind Minted breach – The same group was behind the Tokopedia breach.
On May 2nd, 2020, Hackread.com reported about the Shiny Hunters hacking group possessing authentic user data of eleven companies including Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia and trying to sell it on a dark web marketplace and a hacker forum.
It turns out that the US-based marketplace Minted is one of those eleven companies. For your information, Minted is famous for providing independent artists with a platform to showcase and sell their art and earn money.
See: Shiny Hunters claim to breach Microsoft’s GitHub account; steal 500GB of data
There were reports that Shiny Hunters have sold a database on the Dark Web that contained 5 million records belonging to Minted. And, Minted has confirmed the news with a breach notification that it was indeed a target of a data breach around three weeks back.
According to the notice, the hackers managed to access the company’s user records on 6 May 2020. The data breach led to the exposure of 5 million user credentials including blowfish hashed passwords, phone numbers, and billing/shipping addresses of Minted customers.
The screenshot shows a full list of the stolen database ..
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