A total of 16 websites having 617 million accounts have been hacked. According to a report on theregister.co.uk, these details are up for sale on dark web. The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets, overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access. The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, the part of the Web not indexed by web search engines, although sometimes the term deep web is mistakenly used to refer specifically to the dark web.
The website claims that these sample account records from the multi-gigabyte databases and the account details can be bought from the Dream Market cyber-souk, located in the Tor network. Leaked data includes location, personal information, passwords, email addresses and social media authentication tokens.
The following 16 websites on this list are -
1. Dubsmash (www.dubsmash.com) (162 million details)
2. MyFitnessPal (www.myfitnesspal.com) (151 million details)
3. MyHeritage (www.myheritage.com) (92 million details)
4. ShareThis (www.sharethis.com) (41 million details)
5. HauteLook (www.hautelook.com) (28 million details)
6. Animoto (www.animoto.com) (25 million details
7. EyeEm (www.eyem.com) (22 million details)
8. 8fit (www.8fit.com) (20 million details)
9. Whitepages (www.whitepages.com) (18 million details)
10 Fotolog (www.fotolog.com) (16 million details)
11.500px (www.500px.com) (15 million details)
12. Armor Games (www.armorgames.com) (11 million details)
13. BookMate (www.bookmate.com) (8 million details)
14 CoffeeMeetsBagel (www.coffeemeetsbagel.com) (6 million details)
15 Artsy (www.artsy.com) (1 million details)
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