Hackers leak another 1 milion lines of stolen Odido data
The criminal hacker group ShinyHunters is going through with its threat to publish customer data stolen from Odido every day. The group so far published 2 million lines of data, half on Thursday and half early Friday morning, NOS reports. The number of customers affected is not yet known.
According to Odido, the hackers stole the data of 6.2 million current and former customers of the telecom company. The hackers claim they stole over 8 million people’s data.
The cybercriminals demanded a ransom of over €1 million from Odido, threatening to publish 1 million lines of data every day until the company pays. The deadline for the ransom was Thursday.
The stolen data contains names, home and email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, bank account numbers, and ID numbers. The hackers also stole customer records, which include data on whether customers paid their accounts, have a guardian, or failed to honor their contracts.
According to NOS, the hackers published some customer records, but so far have not published the phone numbers and email addresses of most victims. They did say they would publish increasingly sensitive information.
It is nearly impossible to find out immediately whether your data has been leaked. The data files are 10 gigabytes in size and were published on the dark web. Concerned Odido customers can check on the website haveibeenpwned whether their email address has been involved in data breaches. The Odido data breach is on the site.
Whether Odido will pay the ransom remains to be seen. The police always advise against this, as paying the ransom helps maintain the criminals’ business model.
