GnosticPlayers

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GnosticPlayers is a computer hacking group, who gained notability in 2019 for hacking Zynga,[1][2] Canva,[3][4] and several other online services.[5][6]

The Independent reported that the GnosticPlayers had claimed responsibility for hacking other online businesses, and stealing hundreds of millions of credentials from web databases such as MyFitnessPal, Dubsmash, and fourteen others; and subsequently selling these credentials on the dark web.[7][8]

Reported members[]

In 2020 Night Lion Security listed these people as members of GnosticPlayers.[9]

  • Maxime Tallet, who went under the aliases DDB, Casper, RawData, Pumpkin was the seller of the group.
  • Nassim Benhaddou who went under the aliases Prosox was a member of the group, and was known to be Gabriel's early associate.

In 2019, Nassim Benhaddou, Gabriel Kimiaie-Asadi Bildstein, as well as Maxime Tallet, were arrested after Gabriel self confessed they hacked Gatehub.[10] The hack reportedly involved the theft of $9.5 million worth of cryptocurrency.[11] However, Night Lion Security believes that Gnosticplayers weren't behind the hack.[12]

Companies affected[]

According to Night Lion Security, GnosticPlayers have breached the following companies:[13]

500px • 8fit • 8tracks • Animoto • Armor Games • Artsy • Avito • BlankMediaGames • Bookmate • Bukalapak • Canva • Chegg • CoffeeMeetsBagel • Coinmama • Coubic • DailyBooth • DataCamp • DubSmash • Edmodo • Epic Games • Evite • EyeEm • Fotolog • GameSalad • Gatehub • Ge.tt • GfyCat • HauteLook • Houzz • iCracked • Ixigo • Legendas.tv • LifeBear • Live Journal • LovePlanet • mefeedia • MindJolt • MyFitnessPal • MyHeritage • MyVestigage • Netlog & Twoo • OMGPop • Onebip • Overblog • Petflow • PiZap • PromoFarma • RoadTrippers • Roll20 • ShareThis • Shein • Singlesnet • Storenvy • StoryBird • StreetEasy • Stronghold Kingdoms • Taringa • Wanelo • WhitePages • Wirecard • Yanolja • Yatra • YouNow • Youthmanual • Zomato • Zynga

Night Lion Security says that GnosticPlayers have been involved in 25% of non-credit card related data breaches between January 1, 2017 and June 30, 2020.[14]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Zynga data breach exposed 200 million Words with Friends players". www.cbsnews.com.
  2. ^ Hern, Alex (December 19, 2019). "170m passwords stolen in Zynga hack, monitor says" – via www.theguardian.com.
  3. ^ says, Anon (May 28, 2019). "Millions of Canva users' data stolen as GnosticPlayers strikes again".
  4. ^ "Canva data breach: Why hacker Gnosticplayers boasted to the media". June 3, 2019.
  5. ^ Cimpanu, Catalin. "A hacker has dumped nearly one billion user records over the past two months". ZDNet.
  6. ^ "Times when 'Gnosticplayers' hacker made headlines for selling troves of stolen data on dark web | Cyware Hacker News". cyware.com.
  7. ^ "Dark web data dump sees 620 million accounts from hacked websites go on sale". 13 February 2019.
  8. ^ "617 million hacked accounts put on sale on the dark web | Digit". www.digit.in. 13 February 2019.
  9. ^ (PDF) https://www.nightlion.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Dark-Overlord-Investigation-Report-Night-Lion_v1.01.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ^ (PDF) https://www.nightlion.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Dark-Overlord-Investigation-Report-Night-Lion_v1.01.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ^ Cimpanu, Catalin. "Hackers steal $9.5 million from GateHub cryptocurrency wallets". ZDNet. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  12. ^ "GnosticPlayers Part 1: An Overview of Hackers Nclay, DDB, and NSFW". Night Lion Security. 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  13. ^ (PDF) https://www.nightlion.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Dark-Overlord-Investigation-Report-Night-Lion_v1.01.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ^ (PDF) https://www.nightlion.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Dark-Overlord-Investigation-Report-Night-Lion_v1.01.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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