Company Selling Social Media, Gaming Accounts, and Software Licenses Worldwide Suffered a Data Breach

Jeremiah Fowler

Jeremiah Fowler

Director of Security Research and Senior Communications Consultant

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Company Selling Social Media, Gaming Accounts, and Software Licenses Worldwide Suffered a Data Breach - Security Discovery

Recently I discovered a database that contained over 600,000 records. Upon further investigation it became clear that these records were customer support attachments. This included images of individuals holding their credit card or passport, and a wide range of other support related information.

The records belonged to a company called Z2U that is based in China. Z2U appears to be a broker between individuals buying and selling everything from aged Facebook and Instagram accounts to access to HBO, Netflix, and Disney+, and even Windows license keys at a fraction of the real price. What was more disturbing was seeing sellers offering viruses, malware or other malicious applications.

Their customers were worldwide based on the identification documents contained in the database.

What the database contained:

See my full report here

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