Security News > 2020 > November > 34M Records from 17 Companies Up for Sale in Cybercrime Forum

A diverse set of companies, including an adaptive-learning platform in Brazil, an online grocery service in Singapore and a cold-brew coffee-maker company, are caught up in the large data trove.

A whopping 34 million user records have materialized on an underground sales forum, which cybercriminals claim are gleaned from 17 different corporate data breaches.

Which offers online restaurant reservations in Singapore and neighboring areas, said that data from 2.8 million accounts was stolen and offered for sale.

Researchers at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany discovered another new trove of stolen data equaling 845 GB and 25 billion records in all.

The latest data dump, dubbed #Collection #2-5″ contained roughly three times as many unique records as Collection #1. In all, the entire set of compromised credentials totaled 993.53 GB of data, including addresses, cell phone numbers and passwords.

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