Legacy: Your personal data is sold on the dark internet for only $ 2

Somewhere, on the dark side of the internet, your personal data and accounts on social media may be on sale, not just for hackers and scammers, but companies and researchers can buy them easily, at a price that doesn't start from $ 2.

According to the Indian website, Timesofindia, the dark network cannot be accessed, as it is called, through regular browsers, but rather through an open source program called Tor, which allows access to the dark internet.

In this invisible part of the web, hackers collect Internet users' details that include passwords, phone numbers, and e-mail IDs, and among those looking for such data, groups planning cyber attacks, and others that track consumer behavior.

But the most interesting and worrying thing, experts emphasize, is that there are groups that buy data for companies that are looking for information on competitors ’consumer base, and even to track the chief executives of competitors that may have sensitive and crucial data.

Rajeshkhar Rajhajaria, an independent researcher in cybersecurity, said: "What is happening now is that a third group prepares a list of these encrypted passwords and stores them in a central server, so using one password makes you vulnerable, you are especially vulnerable if you use one password. For multiple accounts online, or just have slightly different passwords. "

It is estimated that the hackers collected between 7000 and 8000 databases from small sites alone, along with the data that was transferred from the main sites, and users' data is sold through different packages, from up to $ 2 per day and up to $ 70 for about three Most popular, customers pay using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum and Zcash.