Wishbone App Security Breach
This breach came as the second-largest security incident in the last three years for the app, earlier in 2017, hackers breached around 2.2 million email addresses and 287,000 phone numbers. It mainly contained kids' personal details. However, the recent breach mainly consists of numbers belonging to young women.
wishbone app security breach. A hacker has put up for sale today the details of 40 million users registered on Wishbone, a popular mobile app that lets users compare two items in a simple voting poll.. The data is being. Read the original article: Flash Alert: Wishbone app breachExecutive summary: IntSights researchers have obtained the full database from the Wishbone app breachOn May 21st it was reported that Wishbone, a popular teen-focused social app, has been breached. The reports came after a threat actor offered the database from the breach for sale on a cybercrime market.The seller offered the 40M. Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave.com confirmed today a security breach after a hacker published the details of 7,516,625 users on a public forum.. In an email to ZDNet today, Dave said.
Personal data from some 40 million users of the popular voting app Wishbone was swiped during a breach earlier this year. Now the hacker who claims responsibility is giving that data away for free. Executive summary: IntSights researchers have obtained the full database from the Wishbone app breach. On May 21st it was reported that Wishbone, a popular teen-focused social app, has been breached. The reports came after a threat actor offered the database from the breach for sale on a cybercrime market. Wishbone users should immediately change their passwords on the app to avoid any issues. Users should also consider disconnecting Wishbone from their Facebook and Twitter accounts until it confirms the data breach and has taken action to remedy it. Wishbone isn’t the first to be targeted by Shiny Hunters this month.
Popular with youngsters, Wishbone is an iOS and Android app which allows users to “compare anything.” The trove of data now available to all-comers includes usernames, email addresses, mobile numbers, gender, date-of-birth, Facebook and Twitter access tokens, MD5-hashed passwords and more. Popular voting app, Wishbone, was the latest victim of a data breach that exposed the data of more than 40 million users. The hacker who claims responsibility is said to be giving the data away for free. This is Wishbone’s second strike in the past three years, with a 2017 breach that resulted in 2.2 million email addresses and over 300k cell phone numbers exposed. Wishbone app which allows teenage girls to compare fashion, music, celebrity, and other instances, has made it official that a recent hack on its database could have leaked passwords of its 40 million users. News is also out that the leaked data is available on some online forums for just 0.85 Bitcoins which accounts for […]
A hacker has put up for sale today the details of 40 million users registered on Wishbone, a popular mobile app that lets users compare two items in a simple voting poll.The Wishbone user database has leaked in full, being offered as a free download on one of the hacking forums it was being sold on. A well-known hacker known as ShinyHunters has taken credit for hacking the company. ShinyHunters also claimed that they were responsible for the breach. Wishbone has not confirmed the breach. Details. ZeroFOX Alpha Team identified an actor who is allegedly selling a database of over 40,000,000 users of the social media app, Wishbone.io. This actor has posted the details for sale on a popular cybercrime and breach forum: Mammoth Media, the owner of the Wishbone app, provided Breach Report with the following statement: “On May 20, our team became aware of a security issue where we believe an unauthorized individual may have had access to Wishbone’s database through stolen credentials. Personal information for some of our users was compromised.
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Read the original article: Wishbone (2020) - 9,705,172 breached accountsIn January 2020, the mobile app to "compare anything" Wishbone suffered another data breach which followed their breach from 2016. An extensive amount of personal information including almost 10M unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers geographic locations and other personal attributes were leaked online and.