Italian email provider Email.it hacked with data on sale

Italian email provider Email.it hacked with data on sale

Just recently, it has been discovered that an Italian email provider by the name of Email.it was hacked leading to a breach of the data of its 600,000 customers.


Reportedly, done by a group that goes by the name of “NoName(NN);” the group has claimed that the actual breach took place back in 2018 posting the following text on their website:



We breached Email.it Datacenter more than 2 years ago and we plant ourself like an APT. We took any possible sensitive data from their server and after we choosen to give them a chance to patch their holes asking for a little bounty. They refused to talk with us and continued to trick their users/customers. They didn’t contacted their users/customers after breaches!


The little bounty in the message refers to a request for a certain sum of money that the email provider refused to pay. Instead, they got the Italian Postal Police (CNAIPIC) involved with the hackers putting out their data on the dark web in retribution.


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The data being sold currently is being offered in different categories with prices ranging from 0.5 Bitcoins($3700) to 3 Bitcoins ($22200) as shown in the photo below.



Detailing the nature of the hack, they posted a Tweet as well:



As seen from the tweet, the hacker managed to acc ..

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