1 MILLION accounts leaked in megahack on banks, websites

A cache of over one MILLION user account records was leaked by hacker collective Team GhostShell in a huge data dump over the weekend.

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Targeting banks, consulting firms, government agencies, and manufacturing firms, the team extracted usernames, passwords, credit histories, and other files and documents from 100 different websites. Much of the data was pulled from the targets' databases and content management systems, some of which contained more than 30,000 records each.

Imperva analysis indicates that the breaches were executed mostly using the SQLmap tool, a common SQL injection method used by hackers.

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