LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:57:04 +0000

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom, was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. Bloom resigned from AshleyMadison citing health reasons in June 2015 — less than one month before unidentified hackers stole data on 37 million users — and launched LeakedSource three months later.

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A week in security (May 30 – June 5)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:50:23 +0000

Posts from the last week on Malwarebytes Labs describing all the latest news, exploits, scams, and more.

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Runescape phish claims your email has been changed

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 20:08:04 +0000

We take a look at a Runescape-themed phishing mail targeting players of the smash MMORPG title, and explain how they steal the data.

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Who Ran Leakedsource.com?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:03:06 +0000

Late last month, multiple news outlets reported that unspecified law enforcement officials had seized the servers for Leakedsource.com, perhaps the largest online collection of usernames and passwords leaked or stolen in some of the worst data breaches — including billions of credentials for accounts at top sites like LinkedIn, Myspace, and Yahoo. In a development that may turn out to be deeply ironic, it seems that the real-life identity of Leakedsource’s principal owner may have been exposed by many of the same stolen databases he’s been peddling.

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