This information also includes details of Justin Bieber and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey.
In 2017 or even before, the personal data of guests that stayed at MGM hotel was leaked and now it is, reportedly, posted for sale on the ideal marketplace for selling stolen data, the Dark Web.
Approximately over 10.7 million (10,683,188 to be precise) records are up for sale and this largely seems to be a repackaged bundle, revealed the head of research at KELA cyber-intelligence firm, Irina Nesterovsky.
The data was discovered by an Israeli security researcher using the name Under the Breach. The researcher claims to have access to a number of threat actors who provide him “pre-breach information” relating to most of the publicly traded firms.
The first posting on the Dark Web was published on 10 July, 2019, and originally it was posted by NSFW, a close associate of the Canva, Zynga, MyHeritage, ShareThis, and GfyCat data breaches fame Gnosticplayers cybercriminal, along with his partners, said Nesterovsky.
She further added that the recently published data has been circulating on various other platforms from the past six months. The data includes names, dates of birth, email IDs, addresses and phone numbers of the former MGM guests, and it doesn’t include passwords.
