Security News > 2020 > July > Breached Data Indexer ‘Data Viper’ Hacked

The hackers also claim they are selling on the dark web roughly 2 billion records Data Viper collated from numerous breaches and data leaks, including data from several companies that likely either do not know they have been hacked or have not yet publicly disclosed an intrusion.

Data Viper is the brainchild of Vinny Troia, a security researcher who runs a cyber threat intelligence company called Night Lion Security.

This approach may have backfired over the weekend, when someone posted to the deep web a link to an "e-zine" describing the Data Viper hack and linking to the Data Viper user base.

The anonymous poster alleged he'd been inside Data Viper for months and had exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes of breached data from the service without notice.

On Aug. 3, 2019, Data Viper's Twitter account casually noted, "FiveStars - 44m breached records added - incl Name, Email, DOB." The post, buried among a flurry of similar statements about huge caches of breached personal information added to Data Viper, received hardly any attention and garnered just one retweet.

News URL

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/breached-data-indexer-data-viper-hacked/