BreachForums Database Leak Turns the Tables on Threat Actors
A database featuring 300,000+ users of notorious hacking forum BreachForums has been leaked online
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A database featuring 300,000+ users of notorious hacking forum BreachForums has been leaked online
The latest incarnation of the notorious BreachForums hacking forum has suffered a data breach, with its user database table leaked online. [...]
The Tea app data breach has grown into an even larger leak, with the stolen data now shared on hacking forums and a second database discovered that allegedly contains 1.1 million private messages exchanged between the app's members. [...]
In 2021, the exclusive Russian cybercrime forum Mazafaka was hacked. The leaked user database shows one of the forum's founders was an attorney who advised Russia's top hackers on the legal risks of their work, and what to do if they got caught. A review of this user's hacker identities shows that during his time on the forums he served as an officer in the special forces of the GRU, the foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Federation.
Davos Forum Highlights Worries About AI-Enabled MisinformationArtificial intelligence-enabled voter misinformation campaigns and voter database hacking are some of the largest threats to election security in a year when more than half of the world's populace will take to the ballot box in elections ranging from free to flawed.
Dymocks Booksellers is warning customers their personal information was exposed in a data breach after the company's database was shared on hacking forums. [...]
While consumers are usually the ones worried about their information being exposed in data breaches, it's now the hacker's turn, as the notorious Breached cybercrime forum's database is up for sale and member data shared with Have I Been Pwned. [...]
Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) has reportedly suffered an older, previously undisclosed data breach impacting 8.8 million customers, with the database now shared on a hacking forum. [...]
A database for the notorious RaidForums hacking forums has been leaked online, allowing threat actors and security researchers insight into the people who frequented the forum. [...]
Luxottica has confirmed one of its partners suffered a data breach in 2021 that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers after a database was posted this month for free on hacking forums. [...]
Open source media player software provider Kodi has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole the company's MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages
The Kodi Foundation has disclosed a data breach after hackers stole the organization's MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages and attempted to sell it online. [...]
Today, the FBI confirmed they have access to the database of the notorious BreachForums (aka Breached) hacking forum after the U.S. Justice Department also officially announced the arrest of its owner [...]
Social media analytics platform Social Blade has confirmed they suffered a data breach after its database was breached and put up for sale on a hacking forum. [...]
InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online -- using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself.
The Russian scooter-sharing service Whoosh has confirmed a data breach after hackers started to sell a database containing the details of 7.2 million customers on a hacking forum. [...]
Twitter has suffered a data breach after threat actors used a vulnerability to build a database of phone numbers and email addresses belonging to 5.4 million accounts, with the data now up for sale on a hacker forum for $30,000. [...]
A developer appears to have divulged credentials to a police database on a popular developer forum, leading to a breach and subsequent bid to sell 23 terabytes of personal data on the dark web.
Appears to have leaked from a cloud thanks to sloppy coding A threat actor has taken to a forum for news and discussion of data breaches with an offer to sell what they assert is a database containing records of over a billion Chinese civilians – allegedly stolen from the Shanghai Police.…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums, an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world's largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charged the alleged administrator of RaidForums -- 21-year-old Diogo Santos Coelho, of Portugal -- with six criminal counts, including conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.