Wishbone App Data Breach

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.

Wishbone app data breach. 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. 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. Dark web trader ShinyHunters has leaked an alleged 40 million user records stolen from the mobile app Wishbone, stating that they had decided to leak the data for free after individuals started to resell it. Cybersecurity vendor Cyble reported the massive data breach, which marks ongoing tension in the cybercrime community. A mere three years later, Wishbone is targeted again. Except, the 2020 breach has almost 20 times the amount of exposed accounts. The threat actor claims that today’s breach is separate from 2017’s breach, and that the data was obtained this year. For data on 40,000,000 Wishbone user profiles, the actor is asking for $8,000 USD.

Small data breaches: countless, dangerous, obscure. According to the 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, 86% of breaches are financially motivated.With the dark web market of stolen data being so vibrant and so profitable, organizations and individual users are under constant threat of cyber-attacks. 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. The mobile application was hacked previously in 2017 but evidence suggests that user records being sold on Dark Web forums were not taken from the 2017 data breach. Wishbone was immensely popular back in 2018 when it featured among the top ten social networking apps on the Apple App Store but presently ranks 143rd. A data breach affecting the mobile app Wishbone has compromised users' full names, user names, phone numbers, birth dates, gender information and auth tokens, reported security researcher Troy Hunt.

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. 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. Wishbone Breach: Hacker Leaks Personal Data of 40 Million Users Friday, May 22, 2020 Personal data of 40 million users registered on Wishbone has been published online by hackers, it included user details like usernames, contact numbers, email addresses, Facebook and Twitter access tokens, DOBs, location, gender, and MD5 hashed passwords. 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.

Hacked Wishbone app knowledge on sale for $8,000 in Bitcoin | Fintech Zoom - World Finance - Hacked Wishbone app knowledge on sale for $8,000 in Bitcoin - CAMEROON MAGAZINE - CAMEROUN INFO - CAMEROUN ACTU 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. 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 […] The company behind the social media app Wishbone was sued Monday over a massive data breach in which the personal information of more than 40 million users, most of them teenagers, was purportedly.