350,000 Social Media Influencers and Users at Risk Following Data Breach

guest · Jun 25, 2020

350,000 Social Media Influencers and Users at Risk Following Data Breach
June 25, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/data-breach-social-media/

Personal data of an estimated 100,000 social media influencers has been accessed and partially leaked following a breach at social media marketing firm Preen.Me, Risk Based Security has discovered. The same breach has also led to more than 250,000 social media users having their information fully exposed on a deep web hacking forum, leaving these individuals at risk of being targeted by scams.

The information includes influencers’ social media links, email addresses, names, phone numbers and home addresses. It was noted that those affected appear to be associated with cosmetic or lifestyle-related content.

“They [those exposed] are also susceptible to spam and substantial harassment via their leaked contact information, as well as spear-phishing and identity theft scams if enough personally identifiable information is gathered.”
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Risk Based Security: Personal Data of 350,000+ Social Media Influencers and Users Compromised Following Preen.Me Hack

Based in Tel Aviv, Preen.Me is self-described as “a next generation marketing platform” that “generates demand on a massive scale” for participating brands by using beauty-related content creators.
Held Under Ransom
Risk Based Security uncovered the leak on June 6, 2020 when a known threat actor posted on a popular deep web hacking forum that they had compromised Preen.Me’s systems and were holding the personal information of over 100,000 affiliated influencers under ransom.

The threat actor then shared 250 records via PasteBin on the same day, with a further comment on June 8th, stating their intent to release the other 100,000 records. Those additional records have yet to be released.
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