Threat actor is selling 368.8 million records from 26 data breaches

A data breach broker is selling user records allegedly from twenty-six data breaches on a hacker forum.

Security experts from Bleeping Computer reported that a threat actor is selling user records allegedly stolen from twenty-six companies on a hacker forum.

The total volume of data available for sale is composed of 368.8 million stolen user records.

“Last Friday, a data broker began selling the combined total of 368.8 million stolen user records for twenty-six companies on a hacker forum.” reported Bleeping Computer.

For some of these companies, the data breaches have not been previously disclosed, including Teespring.com, MyON.com, Chqbook.com, Anyvan.com, Eventials.com, Wahoofitness.com, Sitepoint.com, and ClickIndia.com.

Below the list of affected companies published by Bleeping Computer, which attempted to notify them.

Some of the companies confirmed the incident to BleepingComputer, others such as Chqbook.com claims that they haven’t suffered a security breach.

“There has been no data breach and no information belonging to our customers has been compromised. Data security is a key priority area for us and we conduct periodic security audits to ensure the safety of our customers’ information,” Chqbook told BleepingComputer.

For now, if you have an account at any of the sites listed above, it is strongly suggested that you change your password to a strong and unique one used only at that site.

Users of the above services are recommended to change their password and use unique credentials for each service they access.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Data breaches)

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