More than one million players of the video game Stalker Online have been put at risk after hackers offered them for sale on the darknet.
As Cybernews reports, a database containing over 1.2 million Stalker Online user records is being sold on hacking forums. Separately, another database which is said to contain more than 136,000 records from the game’s forums are also being offered for sale.
Cybernews says it found the database for sale on a popular hacking forum on May 5, with a link to a defaced page on the Stalker Online website offered as “proof” that the game’s servers had been hacked.
Defaced Stalker Online webpage: Source: Cybernews.
The security of this web server has been compromised and all your files and userdata are now in our possession.
Contact us on [REDACTED] for assistance in securing your web server. If not reach within 24 hours – data gathered will be posted publicly for all to download
Of course, a defaced webpage is not evidence of a data breach. Controversially, Cybernews purchased the user database from the hacker, and says that it was able to confirm that the samples of the Stalker Online database “are genuine and the email addresses therein are deliverable.”
Purchasing stolen data from cybercriminals makes me extremely uncomfortable. It could be argued that anyone purchasing hacked databases – whether it by security researchers, journalist, or criminal fraudsters – are encouraging further hacks to occur by generating a demand for more stolen data.
The database, which is being offered for sale for “several hundred Euros worth of Bitcoins”, contains 1,289,084 Stalker Online player records, including use ..
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