Security News > 2020 > October > Hacker is selling 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies
2020-10-31 12:14
A threat actor is selling account databases containing an aggregate total of 34 million user records that they claim were stolen from seventeen companies during data breaches.
On October 28th, a data breach broker created a new topic on a hacker forum to sell the stolen user databases for seventeen companies.
Stolen databases are typically sold first in private sales, like those listed above, with previous ranging from $500, as seen in the Zoosk data breach, to $100,000 for the Wattpad database.
It is common for the stolen databases to be released for free on hacker forums to increase a threat actor's 'street cred.
The combined databases expose over 34 million user records.