The leaked database contains sensitive information, such as name, mobile number, address, user ID among other details, of registered IndiaMart suppliers.
Chinese hacker groups and APT groups adhere to phishing, spear-phishing attack vectors against Indian companies, to carry out large volumes of scanning.
Several forum members have shown interest to procure the data that is being sold for $500. The data could be used to blackmail law enforcement officials.
Unauthorized third party accessed user data of the online bidding, auctioning forum, through a security breach, confirmed by LiveAuctioneers in a statement.
CloudSEK’s flagship digital risk monitoring platform XVigil discovered a post, on a surface web database marketplace, advertising the information of 16.99 million unique CouchSurfing users.