Italian email provider Email.it hacked, data of 600,000 users available for sale

guest · Apr 7, 2020

Italian email provider Email.it hacked, data of 600k users available for sale
April 7, 2020
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/101196/data-breach/italian-email-provider-email-it-hacked.html

The Italian email provider Email.it has been hacked, the company admitted the incident while a hacker group named NN Hacking Group is offering the stolen data for sale on the dark web.

The group shared a series of snapshots on the dump on Twitter claiming that the hack is dated back January 2018, the hacker group also claimed that since then the email provider is still storing users’ passwords in plain text.
If confirmed, the situation is very serious because the email provider has never disclosed a data breach even if it was obliged by the European privacy legislation GDPR.

The dump available for sale in the dark web includes 44 databases containing usernames and plain text passwords, security questions, email messages and related attachments for all 600K email accounts, and SMS and Fax in clear text sent and received by the users. The databases contain data on users who signed up for a free Email.it email account, so-called professional accounts were not impacted.
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On Sunday the NN Hacking Group announced the hack and shared the link of a Tor service where they were selling the stolen data.

“We breached Email.it Datacenter more than 2 years ago and we plant ourself like an APT. We took any possible sensitive data from their server and after we choosen to give them a chance to patch their holes asking for a little bounty. They refused to talk with us and continued to trick their users/customers. They didn’t contacted their users/customers after breaches!” reads the message published by the group on its website.
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