User data of station A was sold by hackers, how much bitcoin is your information worth?
In the early hours of this morning, the AcFun bullet screen video network announced that due to the hacker attack on the website, nearly 10 million pieces of user data have been leaked, mainly including user IDs, nicknames, encrypted and stored passwords, etc.
It is reported on the Internet that hackers have been selling user information of station A on the dark web, and the seller said that the Chinese forum on the dark web guarantees that it only supports Bitcoin. The data involved here has a total of 14704231we'q ten thousand pieces of data, with a total price of 0.49 bitcoins.
The instigator has not yet been identified, but if you look at the world, the user data of many large platforms such as LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, Fling.com, and VK.com have become hackers’ bargains in exchange for Bitcoin.
In May 2016, the Russian hacker Peace sold 117 million LinkedIn email addresses and password combinations on the black market for 5 bitcoins, which is about $2,300.
In June, the account information of 171 million users of the Russian version of "Facebook" VK.com was attacked by hackers, and the black market price of all user information packaged was only 1 bitcoin, or about 580 US dollars.
In September, Yahoo confirmed that the information of its 500 million users had been stolen. The stolen information may include user names, e-mail addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, certain passwords, and security questions and answers. Among them, 200 million account information was listed on the darknet black market for 3 bitcoins.
In July of the same year, a hacker named DataDirect sold the American voter database for 12 bitcoins (approximately $7,800). According to reports at the time, the database included the registration information of all voters in the 50 states of the United States, including full names, Address, date of birth, phone number, date of registration to vote, state voter ID number, political party affiliation, and whether you participated in a general or primary election up to 2000.
In the era of big data, personal data has become valuable and useful information, making data theft one of the most popular businesses for hackers. The feature has also become the currency choice of many hackers for their extortion. Although the price of Bitcoin has almost halved or even faced a greater downside risk in the recent past, it can be seen that it has still not been able to shake its position in the minds of hackers.
