{"id":32786,"date":"2020-07-23T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/instacart-user-data-reportedly-for-sale-on-dark-web-at-2-per-account\/"},"modified":"2020-07-23T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T12:20:00","slug":"instacart-user-data-reportedly-for-sale-on-dark-web-at-2-per-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/instacart-user-data-reportedly-for-sale-on-dark-web-at-2-per-account\/","title":{"rendered":"#Instacart user data reportedly for sale on dark web at $2 per account"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Instacart user data reportedly for sale on dark web at $2 per account<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 23, 2020 |<\/span> 8:20am <\/p>\n

\n Illicit merchants are selling personal data for thousands of Instacart users on the dark web at bargain-bin prices, a new report says.<\/p>\n

Information for as many as 278,531 of the grocery delivery service\u2019s accounts \u2014 including names, order histories, email addresses and partial credit card numbers \u2014 was on sale in two dark web stores for roughly $2 a pop, BuzzFeed News<\/a> reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The trove of accounts app<\/a>eared to include people who had used Instacart as recently as Tuesday, though some of them could be duplicates or \u201cnot genuine,\u201d according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

The sellers reportedly began uploading the data in June and appeared to continue adding listings into this week \u2014 but it\u2019s uncertain where the data came from or how it was obtained.<\/p>\n

Instacart did not immedia<\/a>tely respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment Thursday morning. But the San Francisco-based startup told BuzzFeed that it had not suffered a data breach, though hackers may have targeted individual users with \u201cphishing or credential stuffing techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phishing is a form of cyberattack in which hackers use bogus emails to get personal information, while credential stuffing uses known pairs of usernames and passwords to break into user accounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn instances where we believe a customer\u2019s account may have been compromised through an external phishing scam outside of the Instacart platform or other action, we proactively communicate to our customers to auto-force them to update their password,\u201d an Instacart spokesperson told BuzzFeed.<\/p>\n

The incident also appeared to affect only a subset of Instacart\u2019s users \u2014 the company had \u201cmillions of customers\u201d in the US and Canada as of April, according to BuzzFeed.<\/p>\n

But some customers whose data was listed for sale reportedly said Instacart should have told them if it knew their data had been harvested.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s hard to know what to say, not knowing if it\u2019s a result of [Instacart\u2019s] negligence,\u201d one user, Hannah Chester, told BuzzFeed. \u201c<\/span>But if they\u2019re aware that this happened and haven\u2019t informed us, that\u2019s problematic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Instacart\u2019s business has boomed as the coronavirus pandemic and related lockdowns caused demand for grocery delivery to surge. The firm announced last month that it had raised $225 million in new financing, growing its valuation to $13.7 billion.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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