Shiny Hunters’ latest hit: Minted among 73.1M records offered | SC Media

Shiny Hunters’ latest hit: Minted among 73.1M records offered | SC Media

More details have emerged about hacker group “Shiny Hunters’” prey this past month of more than 11 website victims, including Minted, a marketplace of independent illustrators and designers offering consumers items such as custom greeting cards.


BleepingCompany reported that the Shiny Hunters is flooding the dark web with a combined total of 73.1 million user records from at least a dozen websites, including Minted. Database prices among all the victims range $1,500 and $3,500. 


Five million of Minted customers’ data was affected, according to a chart published by Bleepingcomputer earlier this month.


Minted separately disclosed that a forensics investigation on May 15 determined it was on May 6 the target of a “potential cybersecurity incident,” which ultimately resulted in PII of the company’s user account database. Impacted users of less than 1 percent of its unquantified user base may have had compromised their log-in credentials, email addresses, telephone numbers and physical addresses, but not their payment or credit card information.   


None of this information incidentally is on Minted’s consumer-facing website. The company urged its users to change their passwords for their Minted account and call a toll-free number ..

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