A post on a hacker forum offered 69 million user logins for sale.
, a hacker named TarTarX began to offer data for sale on a hacking forum on Tuesday. The hacker was reportedly soliciting a price of 4 Bitcoins for the data, equivalent to roughly $90,500.
Details of a database schema shared by the hacker suggest that the stolen data includes not only usernames, emails and passwords but also users’ date of birth, zip code, gender, and country — compounding the chance that it could be used to phish or otherwise defraud users in the wrong hands. The forum post made by the hacker also claims that they continue to be able to access the live version of the Neopets site database — a factreports as being confirmed by the owner of the hacking forum where the data was posted. If true, this suggests that even the precautionary measures advised by Neopets would be insufficient to protect a user’s account from unauthorized access.
First launched in 1999, the Neopets site has suffered from a number of security lapses in recent years, particularly after ownership changed hands from Viacom to JumpStart Games in 2014. In 2016, a similar data breach led to potentially
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