Data Breach

Data of 2 million MyFreeCams users sold on a hacker forum

A threat actor was offering for sale on a hacker forum data from 2 million users allegedly stolen from the adult streaming site MyFreeCams.

A threat actor was offering for sale on a hacker forum a database containing user records allegedly stolen from the adult streaming site MyFreeCams.

MyFreeCams it’s one of the top adult streaming websites thta has nearly 70 million visitors each month.

The seller claims that the data related MyFreeCams was stolen in December 2020 through an SQL injection attack. Stolen records belong to 2 million user records of MyFreeCams Premium members, they include usernames, email addresses, MyFreeCams Token (MFC Token) amounts, and passwords in plain text.

At the time of this writing, the threat actor has deleted its post, as well as its account, and emptied the cryptocurrency wallet used for the sale. According to CyberNews that reported the news, the threat actor collected ~$22,400 worth of Bitcoin from the sale of the data across 49 transactions.

“The author of the forum post is asking for $1500 in Bitcoin per 10,000 user records and claims that a single batch would net the buyers at least $10,000, which they could make by selling premium accounts with MFC Token (MyFreeCams’ virtual currency) balances on the black market.” reported CyberNews.

CyberNews contacted MyFreeCams which confirmed the authenticity of the data and notified affected users. In response to the incident, MyFreeCams reset the passwords of impacted users. The investigation conducted by MyFreeCams revealed that data were stolen in “a security incident that occurred more than ten years ago in June 2010.” The company added that it has secured its infrastructure shortly after the attack occurred fixing the issue exploited by the threat actors.

The company pointed out that no financial data was stolen in the attack and added that it did not have evidence that user data was actually compromised as part of the incident.

To see if any of your online accounts were leaked, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records.” continues CyberNews.

It is impossible to determine how many accounts were accessed by using the data available for sale before the passwords were reset.

Data stolen by the threat actors could be used to conduct a broad range of malicious activities, such as blackmailing and extorting money from MyFreeCams users, stealing their MFC Tokens to sell them on the black market, conducting credential stuffing attacks, launch phishing and spam campaigns.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, MyFreeCams)

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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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