Security News > 2022 > December > Social Blade confirms breach after hacker posts stolen user data
Social media analytics platform Social Blade has confirmed they suffered a data breach after its database was breached and put up for sale on a hacking forum.
The company offers an API allowing customers to integrate the Social Blade data directly into their own platforms.
After BleepingComputer contacted Social Blade about the sale of their data, the company confirmed that they suffered a breach and began sending data breach notifications to customers.
"On December 14th we were notified of a potential data breach whereby an individual had acquired exports our users database and were attempting to sell it on a hacker forum," reads a data breach notification sent to customers.
BleepingComputer first learned of the data breach when a threat actor began selling the company's data on Monday, December 12th. In a forum post to the Breached hacking forum, a threat actor claimed that the data was stolen in September 2022 and was willing to sell it to a maximum of one to two people.
Social Blade urges users to remain vigilant against phishing attempts that typically accompany large-scale data breaches, impersonating the breached company to steal passwords and credit card numbers.
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