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Canadian company pleads guilty to peddling vast database of personal information

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Dissent

The Canadian Press reports: The RCMP says a Canadian-based company that peddled an illicit trove of 1.5 billion user names and associated passwords has pleaded guilty to criminal charges. In a news release, the Mounties say Defiant Tech Inc. admitted in court Friday to trafficking in identity information and possession of property obtained by crime…

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Has LeakedSource.com been raided by feds?

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: LeakedSource, a for-profit breach notification site that helped break the news of some of last year’s largest data breaches, has apparently been raided by law enforcement. News of the raid, which can’t be confirmed at the time of writing, first broke on Thursday through a note posted on a vritual markets forum earlier in…

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Last.fm data from 2012 added to LeakedSource

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Dissent

Here’s yet another hack from 2012 where the data are now first circulating online. See previous coverage of the Last.fm hack here. Today LeakedSource announced that they had added the Last.fm data to their repository: Music service Last.fm was hacked on March 22nd, 2012 for a total of 43,570,999 users. This data set was provided…

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SocialBlade hacked – LeakedSource

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Dissent

From LeakedSource.com: Socialblade.com was hacked in August of 2016. Their main website contains 273,086 users while their forums contains only 13,009. Each record contains an email address, ip address, username, user identifier, and one password. Additionally, data we haven’t imported includes authentication tokens for YouTube, Instagram and Twitter for thousands of users as well as…

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LeakedSource uploads data set with 32,888,300 Twitter credentials

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Dissent

From LeakedSource: Twitter credentials are being traded in the tens of millions on the dark web. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This data set was provided to us by a user who goes by the alias “[email protected]”, and has given us permission…

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