David Hanak This afternoon, a very interesting report appeared on the web, which deals with the prices of various commodities on the Dark Web. In this particular case, it was a survey of what options are available to those interested in purchasing different types of user accounts, whether it is e-mails, various subscription services, and more. As it turned out, in the group of user accounts of non-financial institutions, Apple ID accounts have the largest market value. The average price of logging into one Apple ID account is about 15 dollars.
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Dan Pražák The authors of the report put together information about how valuable different types of internet accounts are. It can be expected that among the most expensive will be accounts related to finances, whether it is access data to various internet banking portals, credit card details, etc. The most expensive access data will cost an interested party nearly $250. In this case, these are logins to the PayPal network. Access to internet banking, credit card management systems, etc. are somewhat cheaper.
Apple ID accounts belong to the so-called entertainment accounts section. Among them, it is in the first place with the price of one account of about 15 dollars. For more than 300 crowns, you can acquire the login data of an Apple ID account owner on the Dark Web and thereby compromise all the information contained in it. In second place in this category are Netflix accounts, which are worth around $9. On the contrary, such an account for the Spotify service is almost worthless.
Social networks are not doing well either. The value of an account on FaceBook is about 5 dollars, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram are significantly worse, as the values of these accounts do not exceed 2 dollars. There are also surprisingly low prices for e-mail accounts such as Gmail or Yahoo.
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Photocopies of various sensitive documents are also traded on the Dark Web, which can then be misused for some illegal activity. For example, scans of various statements containing sensitive personal information are worth up to $30. Scanned passports even over $60. The source for this report, which you can view in detail (including the complete infographic). <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>, have been various popular trading hubs on the Dark Web that deal with this issue. These are mostly accounts that have been discredited using various forms of phishing attacks or information leaks.
Source: 9to5mac, Appleinsider
What good is an Apple ID if the user has two-factor authentication set up?
Useless. But there are quite a few who do not have two-factor activated. And then all you need is a password :)
I agree, so for those who don't have it, I only recommend it ;-).