Once again the video calling platform is in trouble. The company has been questioned in recent weeks for handling user data and now it has been discovered that the passwords of more than 500,000 dark web accounts.
Due to the contingency for coronavirus COVID-19 Millions of people around the world are staying home and finding technology the best option to stay connected with their office and loved ones. Precisely for that reason is that Zoom became so popular.
Cyber security intelligence company Cyble revealed that it has found that Zoom accounts are offered on the dark web, or dark web, for less than a penny. In fact, the cybersecurity firm managed to purchase nearly 530,000 accounts from the app for $ 1,000.
According to the company, initially the hackers who made these accounts offered them for free, but once they gained a reputation in the cybercriminal community, they began to monetize them.
The data that can be found are lists of email addresses, passwords, personal meeting URLs and host key of each of the stolen Zoom accounts.
The biggest problem is that many people use the same password and email for all their accounts or services, so cyber criminals just have to go through a trial and error process to find where else the same data can be used.
Millions of people in the world could be affected by this information leak. However, the report highlights the case of 290 accounts of companies such as JP Morgan Chase or Citibank and educational institutions such as the University of Vermont, the University of Colorado, Dartmouth, Lafayette, the University of Florida, and many more.
According to Cyble, Zoom, but that half a million accounts now available on the dark web correspond to users who use “credentials stuffing”.
The first recommendation in case you consider that your data could be in danger is to change the Zoom password and that it is unique, that is, do not use it in other services.
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