Infamous hacking discussion board’s knowledge up on the market after being hacked by different hackers

Not that anybody want show Jeffrey Archer fallacious (Google ‘im!), however the notorious Breached cybercrime discussion board’s database is up on the market. Seems there isn’t a honour amongst thieves in any case.

The information comes courtesy of Have I Been Pwned (through Bleeping Pc), the central repository of all issues on-line and exploited. Earlier this week, the Have I Been Pwned notification service introduced that the Breached cybercrime discussion board knowledge had been added and customers might search to see if their login data and extra had been compromised:

“In November 2022, the well-known hacking discussion board “BreachForums” was itself, breached. Later the next yr, the operator of the web site was arrested and the location seized by legislation enforcement companies. The breach uncovered 212k information together with usernames, IP and e-mail addresses, non-public messages between site members and passwords saved as argon2 hashes.”

For the report, Breached was a hacking and knowledge leak discussion board that hosted and facilitated the sale of knowledge stolen from hacked firms, governments, and organisations internationally.

Apparently, the Breached discussion board knowledge is presently being offered by a hacked going by the identify “breached_db_person”. Considerably mockingly, the hacker reportedly informed BleepingComputer that they had shared the database with Have I Been Pwned to show its authenticity to potential consumers.

Must you be serious about grabbing the Breached knowledge for your self, nicely, the entire shebang is yours for $100,000 to $150,000 and incorporates a snapshot of all the database taken on November twenty ninth, 2022. Fill your boots.

Or somewhat do not. Regardless of the ample and apparent alternative for schadenfreude, you’d nonetheless be paying somebody unscrupulous for one thing stolen. It is all fairly ugly from prime to backside.