Important Data from 4 Giant Companies Hacked Successfully by Hackers
Thursday, June 25, 2020
UPDATimes - Internet technology that is increasingly advanced also has a number of risks. One of the most avoided is the attack of hackers who hacked the site for the sake of it just for fun and malicious intent.
Therefore, data security is a priority for internet users. But in fact, various sites owned by giant companies had been hacked by hackers. The following is a complete review, as UPDATimes quoted from various sources, Thursday (6/25/2020).
1.Ebay
Ebay Company
This giant online shopping site has experienced hacking cases. The cyber crime occurred in May 2014 and began with the hacking of 3 employee IDs.
From that way, hackers get internal access from ebay to enter the ebay user database. 145 million information that is personally obtained by hackers. The only way ebay in combating the hackers is by encouraging users to change the password to login to their site.
The US government stated that the eBay site was hit by a hacking attack, after receiving many complaints from users. Like what?
FirstPost launch, eBay Inc. is now under pressure after a massive cyber attack attacked the auction site in three US states. Now authorities from the three states are investigating the case.
The states of Connecticut, Florida, and Illinois state that they are currently conducting joint investigations. District attorney Eric Schneiderman has asked eBay to provide victims with transparent investigation information.
Detailed information regarding what happened is still unclear, because it is still under investigation by the FBI and several related firms.
2.Dubsmash
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Users of the popular video messaging application, Dubsmash are asked to change their passwords immediately after a large-scale hack that results in their account details being leaked to the dark web.
Details 162 million Dubsmash users are reportedly offered for sale on the Dream Marketplace black market, along with details stolen from 15 other hacked websites.
Other sites affected are MyFitnessPal, MyHeritage, ShareThis, HauteLook, Animoto, EyeEm, 8fit, Whitepages, Photologists, 500px, Game Armor, BookMate, CoffeeMeetsBagel, Artsy, and DataCamp.
In total, it is claimed that 617 million online account details have been stolen, quoted from The Register, Wednesday (02/13/2019).
Data that was leaked was reported including the account holder's name, e-mail address and random password, as well as some location information and other personal details.
This information may have been purchased by spammers and "field credentials", who attempt to use usernames and passwords leaked from one site to enter other websites.
The seller told The Register that most records were stolen in 2018, and went on sale this week. Dubsmash data has been purchased by at least one person.
3.Yahoo
Yahoo Company
Do you still remember Yahoo's acknowledgment of the hacking of all 3 billion accounts it managed last year? Now, the technology company based in Sunnyvale, California, United States must receive his sentence.
Yahoo is required to pay a fine of USD 50 million, or around Rp. 759 billion. In addition, they must also provide credit supervision services for at least two years to around 200 million people whose personal information, such as names, e-mail addresses, and cellphone numbers have been hacked.
Withdrawing backwards, Yahoo experienced large-scale data theft in 2013 and 2014. The first incident affected 3 billion accounts, while afterwards it cost 500 million users.
Interestingly, in 2013, Yahoo claimed there were only 1 billion accounts that were affected by the data theft case. The actual figure was only discovered after the official announcement they made in 2017, as well as making it the largest data theft action in history.
As UPDATimes from CNET, Thursday (06/25/2020), about the payment of the fine, there will be two parties who pay. First is Verizon, the company that acquired Yahoo in 2017.
While the other one is Altaba. It is a company that was established from the remnants of Yahoo's entity that was not sold to Verizon.
Later, both of them will pay the penalty in the same portion, which is 50:50. Earlier, in April, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that Altaba had to pay USD 35 million for Yahoo's failure to resolve an account hacking case in 2014.
4.Marriott-Starwood Hotels
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Marriot International hotel chain announced that a database of information about guests who had stayed at his hotel was hacked. This potentially exposes the personal information of around 500 million of their guests.
Hundreds of millions of hacked data are guests from hotels in the Starwood Hotels network, such as W Hotels, St. Regis, Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, Westin Hotels & Resorts, Element Hotels, Aloft Hotels, the Luxury Collection, Tribute Portfolio, Le Meridien Hotels & Resorts, Four Points by Sheraton, and Design Hotels.
Even more surprising is the hackers managed to illegally access the Starwood Hotel network since 2014. About 500 million potential guests have been stolen, ranging from name, email, address, telephone number, passport number, date of birth, gender, arrival information and departures, to credit cards.
Marriott said they first learned of the hack after internal security devices sent a warning on September 8, 2018. Then after conducting further investigations, the hotel chain learned that it had been hacked away from that date.
The company that bought Starwood Hotels in 2016 has now reported a hacking incident to law enforcement and authorities.
"We are still investigating the situation so we do not have a specific list of specific hotels. All we know is that the hacking only affects the Starwood brand," Marriott Hotel spokesman Jeff Flaherty told Reuters.
Marriott also added that it was too early to estimate the financial impact of the violation. They believe that this incident will not affect finances in the long run.
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