Security News > 2022 > April > New Industrial Spy stolen data market promoted through cracks, adware
Threat actors have launched a new marketplace called Industrial Spy that sells stolen data from breached companies, as well as offering free stolen data to its members.
While stolen data marketplaces are not new, instead of extorting companies and scaring them with GDPR fines, Industrial Spy promotes itself as a marketplace where businesses can purchase their competitors' data to gain access to trade secrets, manufacturing diagrams, accounting reports, and client databases.
The Industrial Spy marketplace offers different tiers of data offerings, with "Premium" stolen data packages costing millions of dollars and lower-tier data that can be bought as individual files for as little as $2. For example, Industrial Spy is currently selling an Indian company's data in their premium category for $1.4 million, paid in bitcoin.
Much of their data is being sold as individual files, where threat actors can purchase the specific files they want for $2 each.
The marketplace also offers free stolen data packs, likely to entice other threat actors to use the site.
The threat actors may have downloaded this data from ransomware gang's leak sites to resell on Industrial Spy.