It is unclear who hacked these forums but insider discussion believes government authorities were behind the attack as a “friendly warning” message.
Maza hacking forum, previously known as Mazafaka has suffered a data breach in which unknown hackers have leaked around 3,000 login credentials and other sensitive data of its registered users.
Maza is an infamous platform known for trading stolen financial information especially credit and debit card details. The specific term of this criminal activity is carding meaning trafficking of credit card, bank account, and other personal information online.
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As for the recent incident, Hackread.com was contacted by an anonymous user with a set of records apparently belonging to users on the Maza hacking forum.
The user also shared inside screenshots showing the forum’s moderators acknowledging that one of their accounts going by the handle of “mak” was compromised on February 12th, 2021 leading to suspicious activity on the forum. The moderator also claimed that the attackers couldn’t access its entire database.
However, the group behind the attack posted a warning text that said “Your data has been hacked and the data shared by the anonymous user with Hackread.com shows some data was indeed stolen.
This includes:
User ID
Usernames,
Email addresses (around 3,000)
Hashed passwords
Skype addresses
The leaked information also included a private encryption key supposedly used by the MAZA administrators.
Moreover, ICQ numbers are also part of the leaked database. This is significant because ICQ numbers linked to particular ac ..
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