H5N1 information safety theatre has allegedly institute a grouping of a hacker who is operating out of China has been seen selling the information of some 200 1000000 Japanese users on the so-called nighttime web.
According to a FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence report, inwards Dec concluding year, they spotted an surreptitious Chinese-language website that was selling the sets of IDs, passwords in addition to e-mail addresses, in addition to other of import information.
It appears that the information accept been assembled from hacking files of upwards to fifty smaller Japanese online retailers in addition to gaming websites, in addition to set upwards for sale every mo i big giant archive.
The BleepingComputer website has reported that "the cost for the entire archive is ¥1,000 CNY ($150.96 USD). Several actors commenting on the forum thread where the suspected Chinese hacker was selling his information commented that they've bought the PII cache simply did non have their files. It is unclear if these comments are true, or if these were made past times other information sellers trying to sabotage their competition."
The researchers tell that they traced the hacker's online presence on a QQ social network ID that too gave a link to some other hacker's social ID.
"This QQ address is connected to an private living inwards China's Zhejiang province," researchers said.
