A hacker has dumped nearly one billion user records over the past two months

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-hacker-has-dumped-nearly-one-billion-user-records-over-the-past-two-months/

By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet News
April 15, 2019

A hacker who spoke with ZDNet in February about wanting to put up for sale the
data of over one billion users is getting dangerously close to his goal after
releasing another 65.5 million records last week and reaching a grand total of
932 million records overall.

The hacker's name is Gnosticplayers, and he's responsible for the hacks of 44
companies, including last week's revelations.

Since mid-February, the hacker has been putting batches of hacked data on Dream
Market, a dark web marketplace for selling illegal products, such as guns,
drugs, and hacking tools.

He's released data from companies like 500px, UnderArmor, ShareThis, 
GfyCat, and MyHeritage, just to name the bigger names. Releases have been 
grouped in four rounds -- Round 1 (620 million user records), Round 2 (127 
million user records), Round 3 (93 million user records), and Round 4 
(26.5 million user records).

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