mSpy and Adult Friend Finder Breaches a Boon to Extortionists
Brian Krebs reports:
The recent breaches involving the leak of personal data on millions of customers at online hookup site Adult Friend Finder and mobile spyware maker mSpy give extortionists and blackmailers plenty of ammunition with which to ply their trade. And there is some evidence that ne’er-do-wells are actively trading this data and planning to abuse it for financial gain.
Within hours after data on tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of mSpy users leaked onto the Deep Web, miscreants on the “Hell” forum (reachable only via Tor) were busy extracting countless Apple iTunes usernames and passwords from the archive.
Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.
2 comments to “mSpy and Adult Friend Finder Breaches a Boon to Extortionists”
DBWoS - May 26, 2015
Adult Friend Finder – What They Knew and When They Knew It!
http://databreachwallofshame.org/2015/05/adult-friend-finder-what-they-knew-and-when-they-knew-it/
Dissent - May 26, 2015
I have a separate post today based on your report. Thank you!