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Darknet markets generate millions in revenue by selling stolen personal data

Darknet markets generate millions in revenue by selling stolen personal data

It’s common to hear news stories about big data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal goods, stolen data products move through a supply chain made up of producers, wholesalers and consumers. But this supply chain involves the interconnection of several criminal organizations operating in …

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Darknet markets generate millions in revenue by selling stolen personal data

Darknet markets generate millions in revenue by selling stolen personal data

It’s common to hear news stories about big data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal goods, stolen data products move through a supply chain made up of producers, wholesalers and consumers. But this supply chain involves the interconnection of several criminal organizations operating in …

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Hackers release millions of Twitter IDs and user information for free

Hackers release millions of Twitter IDs and user information for free

Twitter’s security flaw that allowed hackers to steal millions of user records was patched in August this year, but that hasn’t stopped hackers from posting that data for free online.Photo: Sergey Yelagin (Shutterstock) Twitter’s API once contained a flaw so easily exploitable that hackers managed to capture 5.4 million user details. Now, according to reports …

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