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Nulled
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Type of site
Forum
URLhttps://nulled.to
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired to access features
Current statusActive

Nulled is a popular online forum board with hundreds of thousands of members[1][2], mostly used by cyber criminals to trade and purchase leaked or hacked information.[3][4] The forum is popular for its data breach (in 2016) which helped law enforcement to obtain information about possible "suspects".[1][4][5]

Security Breach (May)

On May, 2019, Nulled was hacked and its database leaked.[5] The leaked data contained 9.45GB of users personal information.[6][7] The leak included a complete MYSQL database file which contained the website's entire data.[8] This data breach included 536,064 user accounts, their PayPal email addresses[2][9], along with cracked passwords[10], 800,593 user personal messages, 5,582 purchase records and 12,600 invoices.[4] The data breach also exposed email addresses hosted on government domains.[1][5][11] The identity of the crew that took down Nulled's database is not known but it is believe that that state-sponsored hackers were involved.[11] It is believed that the security breach originated from Czech Republic.[12] Another article credits a Romanian group called "Smurfs.gg" responsible for the breach.[13]

Vulnerabilities

Security researchers identified that the forum used software and plugins with critical vulnerabilities.[14]

Hacked accounts

The website is also famous for hosting the sale of illegally-obtained Fortnite accounts.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Data Leaked From Hacker Forum Nulled.io | SecurityWeek.Com". www.securityweek.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b "The popular crime forum Nulled.io pwned by hackers". Security Affairs. 16 May 2016. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  3. ^ LLC, LIFARS (17 May 2016). "Hacking Marketplace Nulled.IO Hacked Cybersecurity News". LIFARS, Your Cyber Resiliency Partner. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  4. ^ a b c Osborne, Charlie. "Nulled.IO hacking forum data breach exposes attackers in the shadows". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 28 July 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  5. ^ a b c "Nulled.IO: Should've Expected The Unexpected!". RBS. 10 May 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  6. ^ Cimpanu, Catalin. "Famous Nulled.io Hacking Forum Suffers Devastating Data Breach". softpedia. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  7. ^ Kyoung, Son (17 May 2016). "유명 해킹포럼 'Nulled.IO' 해킹...전체 사용자 정보 유출". ZDNet Korea.
  8. ^ "Nulled.IO Hacking Forum Hacked, Trove of Data Stolen". HackRead. 16 May 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  9. ^ "В Интернет выложен полный дамп базы хакерского сайта nulled.io". www.securitylab.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  10. ^ "Don't laugh, but one of the world's top hacker websites just got hacked". Metro. 17 May 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  11. ^ a b at 22:17, Iain Thomson in San Francisco 17 May 2016. "Dark web hacking forum hacked and members' privates exposed". www.theregister.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "Behind the NULLED.IO hack". www.cybersecurity-help.cz. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  13. ^ Aldershoff, Jan Willem (10 May 2016). "Hackers obtain userdata and private messages of crack sharing community". Myce.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  14. ^ "Nulled.io pwned and data dump exposes private messages, email and passwords". International Business Times UK. 15 May 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  15. ^ D'Anastasio, Cecilia. "What's Really Going On With All Those Hacked Fortnite Accounts". Kotaku. Archived from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
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