Weibo: A Hacker is Selling Data of 538 Million Weibo Users on the Dark Web

We as a whole realize that information is the new sort of gold and individuals can procure a ton by selling individual data of individuals. All things considered, as indicated by an ongoing report, a programmer is selling the information of 538 million Weibo clients on the Dark Web.

Found by ZDNet journalists and a few Chinese media, the programmer evidently has a great deal of information from the Chinese microblogging webpage, Weibo in his grasp. He put an ad for the information deal on the Dark Web as of late. The individual supposedly got his hands on the information from a SQL database dump in 2019. He/she professes to have hacked Weibo’s database in mid-2019 to acquire the information and now the individual is selling it for ¥1,799 ($250).

The taken information contains subtleties of 538 million clients of the microblogging webpage including individual subtleties like sexual orientation, genuine names, and area. The programmer guarantees that telephone numbers are accessible for just 172 million clients out of 538 million. In any case, fortunately, the programmer doesn’t have the passwords of the records.

Presently, after this revelation, the organization has given blended responses on the equivalent. Chinese security specialists watched the inconsistencies of the announcements by the organization. In the first place, the organization asserts that the information was acquired by coordinating contacts against its API, though the programmer professes to have gotten the information from a SQL database dump, as referenced prior.

Secondly, there is no explanation of how the attacker got his/her hands on the details like location and gender of users. These pieces of information remain private on the site.

However, after these confusing statements, the company said that it has informed the police and the investigation is underway.

 

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