Hackers have managed to break into personal details of more than 617 million users as per a report by The Register. The personal details of the users are now available for sale on Dark Web.
The report by Register also details that the intrusion happened with 16 popular websites including Dubsmash (162 million), MyFitnessPal (151 million), MyHeritage (92 million), ShareThis (41 million), HauteLook (28 million), Animoto (25 million), EyeEm (22 million) among others.
The hacked personal details include locations, passwords, email addresses etc.which are up for sale in less than $20,000 in digital currency Bitcoin. As per the Register, the entire database is now in possession of an anonymous hacker who claims to have leveraged vulnerabilities within web applications to extract personal information of users.
The following data of websites is up for sale-:
Dubsmash:161,549,210 accounts available for 0.549 BTC ($1,976) A total of 11GB data was hacked in December 2018. Every account detail includes user ID, SHA256-hashed password, username, email address, language and country.
MyFitnessPal: 150,633,038 accounts available for 0.289 BTC ($1,040) total 3.5GB of data hacked February 2018. Each account record contains a user ID, username, email address.
Bookmate: 8,026,992 accounts available for 0.159 BTC ($572) total
DataCamp: 700,000 accounts available for 0.013 BTC ($46.8) total
Whitepages: 17,775,679 accounts available for 0.434 BTC ($1560) total
