Security News > 2020 > May > Cybercriminals threatening to auction off stolen files from Lady Gaga, Madonna, and (maybe) Donald Trump
The hackers have now turned to Dark Web auction houses instead. "Putting the data out there for free to do extortion or to leverage the extortion isn't effective because now the police are involved, the FBI is involved, the Secret Service is involved because Trump was mentioned. They then turned to this auction house called Jokerbuzz," Turnage said.
Because of DarkOwl's work offering access to the world's largest dataset of Dark Net and deep web content, the company's researchers have seen the files related to Lady Gaga, Sherwood, and the initial documents related to President Trump.
In the blog post, DarkOwl researchers explain that a review of the Lady Gaga data revealed there are over 3,000 files across 350 folders which include W9 forms, expense reports, producer agreements, certificates of engagements, and confidentiality agreements over the last decade.
"There is a lot of discussion in the underground community about this. Most people are curious because they definitely have real Lady Gaga data and they definitely have infiltrated the email servers of this law firm. But are they spinning the Trump angle just to sound bigger and badder than they really are? Just to get media attention?".
In their latest blog post, the people behind REvil have said Madonna is the next target and they plan to auction off her confidential personal files on May 25 for a starting price of $1 million.