SAN FRANCISCO: The hacker who had previously stolen and posted data on nearly 750 million users of various popular Web sites in a Dark Web market has put up for sale the third set of nearly 93 million hacked databases .
According to a report released on zdnet.com late Sunday, the hacker will sell this time 93 million additional users registered by eight companies, including GfyCat, a popular platform for hosting and sharing GIF files.
"The hacker sells each database individually on Dream Market, and together the eight are worth 2,6249 bitcoins, which is about $ 9,400," the report says.
Stolen information primarily includes account holder names, email addresses, and pbadwords.
The hacker aims to sell more than a billion user records and then disappear with money. (Representative Image)
The hacker, known as Gnosticplayers, had previously released a batch of 16 websites containing data from 620 million users and a second batch of eight portals containing data from 127 million users, including 18 million user registrations from the Ixigo Travel Booking site. and 40 million of YouNow's live video streaming site.
The hacker aims to sell more than a billion user records and then disappear with money.
His current total is about 840 million records.
"New leaks are coming in, including one from a cryptocurrency exchange," the hacker told ZDNet.
Previously, the same hacker claimed to have more than 151 million records on MyFitnessPal and 25 million records on Animoto and many more on several major sites.
It has been argued that the databases, which aim to make life easier for hackers, can be purchased at Dream Market's cyber-souk, located in the Tor Network, for less than $ 20,000 in bitcoin.
Although some of these sites – including MyHeritage, MyFitnessPal, and Animoto – warned their customers last year that they had been compromised, several others began to inform users of these attacks.
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