Cyber Crime

Shiny Hunters group is selling data from 11 companies on the Dark Web

Shiny Hunters hacking group is offering for sale on a dark web marketplace databases containing over 73.2 million user records from over 11 companies.

A hacking group named Shiny Hunters is attempting to sell on a dark web hacking marketplace databases containing more than 73.2 million user records from 11 different companies.

Shiny Hunters started offering the Tokopedia dump last week (90 million user records), then it began proposing 22 million user records for Unacademy and data allegedly obtained from the hack of the Microsoft’s GitHub account.

Now the group has begun selling databases for the meal kit and food delivery company HomeChef, the photo print service ChatBooks, and Chronicle.com.

ChatBooks confirmed the data breach and started sending data breach notifications to their users.

Now experts from cybersecurity firm Cyble confirmed that Shiny Hunters had started to offering data from other companies, this means that the hacking group is offering a total of user databases from 11 companies.

Below the complete list published by BleepingComputer:

CompanyUser RecordsPrice
Tokopedia91 million$5,000
Homechef8 million$2,500
Bhinneka1.2 million$1,200
Minted5 million$2,500
Styleshare6 million$2,700
Ggumim2 million$1,300
Mindful2 million$1,300
StarTribune1 million$1,100
ChatBooks15 million$3,500
The Chronicle Of Higher Education3 million$1,500
Zoosk30 million$500

Users of the above companies urge to change their passwords as soon as possible. If users share the same passwords on other sites, they must change their passwords too.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – Shiny-Hunters, hacking)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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