was published on Monday on “Cebulce”, a Polish-language forum in the Tor network. The huge database that appeared on the forum contains millions of rows, each of which represents account login details, most often belonging to someone from Poland. “We are probably dealing with one of the largest one-off leaks in the history of the Polish Internet“- writes the website that deals with online security. The author of the publication is an account created about two months ago, which has not published any entries so far.
Massive data leak. The list includes Facebook, Allegro, mBank and ING Bank Śląski
A file called “.pl.txt” appeared on the forum, which has over 6.2 million lines. Each of them contains the address of the website from which the stolen data comes, as well as the login and password used on this website. The file is apparently a fragment of a larger whole, from which all lines containing the string “.pl” were selected.
“The format of the data points quite clearly to the source in the form of ‘stealer’ files – i.e. malware that, after infecting a computer, downloads from it all logins and passwords ever remembered by the browser and sends it to its creators. Data obtained in this way is one of the main elements of marketing among criminals, but they are rarely published in such wholesale quantities and for free. The website also explains that it is difficult to estimate the number of victims of this leak, but usually from a single leak can be from a dozen to several dozen passwords, so the number of victims may exceed 100,000. The following sites most often appear in the file:
- Facebook (119,334 records)
- Allegro (88,282 records)
- .gov.pl (44,385 records)
- Onet Poczta (28,747 records)
- WP Mail (12,056 records)
- x-com (10,761 records)
- mBank (10,140 records)
- Apricots (2672 records)
- ING Bank (1227 records)
Card leak at ING Bank Śląski
As we can see in the list, data from the . Let us remind you that last weekend there was a leak of ING customer cards. The bank blocked them and claims that the leak occurred from the database of one of the operators. At the moment, it is not known whether yesterday’s big data leak is in any way related to the leak of the payment penalty of some ING Bank Śląski customers.
Source: Gazeta
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