ShinyHunter Hackers

8th August 2024

Ticketmaster, one of the largest online ticket sale platforms in the world, was successfully hacked at the end of last month. This hack is one of the biggest in history in terms of global victims, with potentially 560 million customers’ personal data being compromised.

The group behind the breach, ShinyHunters, went on to demand a $500,000 (£400,000) ransom to prevent the data from being sold on the dark web.

This is not the first time that we have heard from ShinyHunters, as they have been linked to a number of high-profile data breaches, including the sale of data from 70 million AT&T customers and a breach affecting nearly 200,000 Pizza Hut customers in Australia. Around the same time as the Ticketmaster breach, Santander was targeted, which resulted in the data of 30 million customers being stolen (not UK customers).

Unsurprisingly, the stolen data has been found advertised on the dark web, via a hacking forum known as BreachForums, a notorious site for trading stolen information.

You may be thinking your business is too small to be of interest to a hacker and certainly, the likes of ShinyHunters are hunting big game and will use a great deal of resources to breach the sophisticated cyber security that these big cats will be employing. Small time hackers won’t have the same level of resources and skills as ShinyHunters … then again, smaller businesses are unlikely to have the same level of security to block them. You might be easy hanging fruit!

For businesses that are concerned they may have confidential data circulating on the dark web and would like to understand their level of exposure, contact us.

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