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Cybercriminals have managed to hack into an online platform used for buying and selling guns, creating a database of 111,000 entries, some of which containing information about the CRM used by gun shops across the UK, according to The Register.
Guntrader is a platform very much like Gumtree where private individuals post ads on the Internet along with their contact information so that potential buyers can get in touch. The breach of Guntrader earlier this week showed an SQL database running the online platform Guntrader.uk and its registered electronic gun shop product, consisting of around 111,000 users dating from 2016 to July 17.
The database contains users’ names, mobile phone numbers, email addresses, as well as geo-location data. The stolen database also contained information such as IP addresses of users, postal addresses, zip codes, phone or fax n…
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