The recent breaches involving the leak of personal data on millions of customers at online hookup site
Adult Friend Finder and mobile spyware maker
mSpy give extortionists and blackmailers plenty of ammunition with which to ply their trade. And there is some evidence that ne’er-do-wells are actively trading this data and planning to abuse it for financial gain.
Within hours after data on tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of mSpy users leaked onto the Deep Web, miscreants on the
“Hell” forum (reachable only via
Tor) were busy extracting countless
Apple iTunes usernames and passwords from the archive.
