Stolen Data of Over 5 Million People Sold On Bot Markets

Around five million people globally have had their data stolen and sold on the bot market till date, of which 600,000 are from India, making it the worst affected country, according to one of the world's largest VPN serice providers NordVPN. From the report: Bot markets are used by hackers to sell stolen data from victims' devices with bot malware. The study by NordVPN, of Lithuania's Nord Security, said the stolen data included user logins, cookies, digital fingerprints, screenshots and other information, with the average price for the digital identity of a person pegged at 490 Indian rupees($5.95). NordVPN tracked data for the past four years, ever since bot markets were launched in 2018.

Not stolen

[Errol backfiring]

As bad as it is, theft is never a good analogy for data copying, no matter what consequences it has. Their privacy has been violated, they are an easy target for identity abuse, but nothing has vanished except for the trust in data holder.

not my data

[OrangeTide]

I don't own it.

Two questions

[plate_o_shrimp]

First: Only 5 million? Given a global population of 8 billion, a huge percentage of whom are online, 5 million seems like a surprisingly small number

Second: 24 hours and this topics has only 4 posts? What has become of /.?