Data is a popular commodity on the dark web, where people buy and sell sensitive information, much of which is stolen through cyber vulnerabilities. Usernames, passwords, account numbers, financial records, credit card details, medical records - all of these are available for access.

The three men, who work for a private detective agency, used the dark web to sell addresses, phone numbers and other personal data to paying customers, according to law enforcement sources cited by TASS. The group allegedly used forged court orders and falsified police documents to obtain the information.

The Argentine government does not believe this was a #databreach, where hackers infiltrated the system and dragged its stored user data. Instead, they believe it was the work of an employee of the Ministry of the Interior who had authorized access to the system.

Solonchenko abused Messenger's address book import feature to crawl 178 million Facebook users' data between January 2018 and September 2019 .In 2021, 533 million Facebook users' data crawled using the same vulnerability was compromised.

We expect that the growing number of data breaches and the increased channels available to cybercriminals to monetize leaked data will lead even more to increased interest and activity in data stolen from the dark web.

According to the forum posters, the data provided contains personal information about the following Facebook users: name, gender, location, email address, phone number, and user identity.

Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM) decision to suspend access to the CCRIS service applies to all credit reporting agencies and states that access will be restored once secure access to credit reporting agencies is assured.

Eskenazi said in late August that it had notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is cooperating with the medical facility in its investigation.

Ransomware gangs such as BlackMatter typically steal data from a company's network before encrypting it and then threatening to release the files online if the ransom used to decrypt them is not paid.

The attackers' goal is not to compromise systems or demand ransoms, but to collect valuable information that they can later use or sell to others. A spokesman for the UN Secretary-General said the organisation was "a frequent target of cyber attacks".