Hundreds Of Thousands Of Instacart Customers' Personal Data Is Being Sold Online

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/instacart-customers-info-sold-online

By Jane Lytvynenko
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Last updated on July 22, 2020

The personal information of what could be hundreds of thousands of 
Instacart customers is being sold on the dark web. This data includes 
names, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and order histories, 
and appears to have affected customers who used the grocery delivery 
service as recently as yesterday.

As of Wednesday, sellers in two dark web stores were offering information 
from what appeared to be 278,531 accounts, although some of those may be 
duplicates or not genuine. As of April, Instacart had "millions of 
customers across the US and Canada," according to a company spokesperson.

The company denied there had been a breach of its data.

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