A Hacker Has Dumped Nearly One Billion User Records Over the Past Two Months

'A hacker who spoke with ZDNet in February about wanting to put up for
sale the data of over one billion users is getting dangerously close
to his goal after releasing another 65.5 million records last week and
reaching a grand total of 932 million records overall. From a report:

The hacker's name is Gnosticplayers, and he's responsible for the
hacks of 44 companies, including last week's revelations. Since
mid-February, the hacker has been putting batches of hacked data on
Dream Market, a dark web marketplace for selling illegal products,
such as guns, drugs, and hacking tools. He's released data from
companies like 500px, UnderArmor, ShareThis, GfyCat, and MyHeritage,
just to name the bigger names. Releases have been grouped in four
rounds -- Round 1 (620 million user records), Round 2 (127 million
user records), Round 3 (93 million user records), and Round 4 (26.5
million user records).'

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/04/15/1920217

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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