PaidWork Data Allegedly Exposed in 11GB Dataset Affecting 22 Million Users
Summary
A dataset reportedly offered for sale on a cybercrime forum allegedly contains about 11GB of PaidWork user data, including personal, hashed-password and financial information, affecting approximately 22 million users.
Key points
- The article alleges that data from approximately 22 million PaidWork users was exposed.
- The dataset is described as approximately 11GB and reportedly offered for sale on a cybercrime forum.
- Reported data includes names, email addresses and hashed passwords.
- The dataset reportedly contains banking details, PayPal email addresses and cryptocurrency wallet addresses.
- Other reportedly exposed information includes billing addresses, IP addresses, device details, dates of birth and gender.
Article Details
- Victim Organization
- PaidWork
- Incident Type
- Alleged data breach and exposure of a user database
- Data Types Exposed
- Full names
- Email addresses
- Hashed passwords
- Bank account numbers
- Routing/BIC codes
- Bank names
- PayPal email addresses
- Cryptocurrency wallet addresses
- Billing addresses
- IP addresses
- Device information
- Dates of birth
- Gender
- Affected Records
- Approximately 22 million users
- Affected Data Size
- Approximately 11GB
- Operational Impact
- Unknown
- Ransom Or Extortion
- The dataset was reportedly offered for sale on a cybercrime forum for BTC/ETH/XMR; no ransom demand or extortion threat is reported.
- Claim Status
- alleged