Hackers Stole Data From Thousands of Women Shopping For Plus Size Clothing

In a message recently uploaded to a dark web forum, a hacker solicited bids on an illegally obtained commodity.  — it was a set of personal data from thousands of plus-size women.

Others in the dark web forum discussed how to monetize the women’s personal data by targeting them with scams meant to sell weight-loss supplements or plus-size clothing. The original poster included a sample set of a few thousand women’s data, most of whom lived in the US, suggesting the full set included hundreds of thousands of data points.

The hacker gained unauthorized access to the data from women’s clothing websites, according to DynaRisk, a cybersecurity firm who detected the activity and shared its findings with Business Insider. DynaRisk determined that the data was exposed in late August.

Most cybercriminals will find a list of 500 million hacked email addresses and they’ll bombard them with spam, but they don’t know what to send them … in this case, they did and they might be seeking out this specific type of product.