Privacy News LeakedSource Website Goes Dark

[Exterminator]

The LeakedSource site, known for aggregating data breach information, has gone offline. There is no official information regarding the reasons why this happened, aside from rumors that a police raid was involved.

The site has been down for a few hours now, and visitors have been unable to look up account details that LeakedSource has been collecting over time. These pertained to multiple data breaches, so the information there is particularly useful for everyone.

It’s not only the site that has gone dark but also the associated social media accounts, which have been suspended, pushing the entire situation deeper into the unknown.

Complete silence
While there is no official information on what exactly has been the source of this problem, a Pastebin post made shortly after LeakedSource has gone down, claims the site has been raided. Furthermore, it says that law enforcement agencies seized all the hosted data, while LeakedSource servers got subpoenaed and placed under federal investigation.

“Leakedsource is down forever and won't be coming back. Owner raided early this morning. Wasn't arrested, but all SSD's got taken,” the post reads. This, as mentioned before, has not been confirmed by authorities or any source from the website.

There are many questions as to why law enforcement would want to take down the site. LeakedSource did not hack sites on its own but used the dark web to fish out data and create a massive database. The site made it easier for everyone to see just how many accounts leak online and the extent of the data breaches across the world.

Questionable business
While there have been numerous critiques directed toward LeakedSource for letting anyone check out the account credentials hackers dropped on the dark web, instead of firing off millions of emails to inform account owners directly, there has not been any talk about taking down the site for doing anything illegal.

Some questioned, however, just how ethical it was for the site to sell access to anyone to this information. While some people wanted to check their own data in there, there were certainly many who wanted to make darker use of it.

Hackers could very well go the easy route and use LeakedSource to gain access to information on particular sources if they wanted, which of course, is quite risky for those involved, no matter how much good they proclaimed to do.

 

[antreas]

How people will be able to see if their accounts are hacked. any alternative?

 

[BugCode]

Well, what would i say...

I HAVE ABOUT 15YRS AGO LEFT BEHIND ANY SOCIALMEDIA ACCOUNTS AND WILL NEVER BEEN anymore PARTICIPATE.
Sorry capslock, but im too lazy to wrote it again. Okay, this is also kind of "socialmedia account",but i do not count this groups like ,twitter,facebook etc crap! I use irl!! instead of those.

And there is a phrase, "humans are like machines", well maybe this is only my imagination :d . But,like i have sayid manytime before do not TRUST passwordgenerators nor password/credentials saver, like lastpass etc.. Just think this case like common sense, make ur own passwords, and do not share them any thirparty solutions and keep those safe in ur mind if you are good for keep passphrase in ur head or wrote those down like piece of paper or like notepad and store it like vaulted flashdrive. Thats what i do and i neve ever gonna give browser let it keep my passwords im browser "memory".

Well, thats a kind of thing people doesnt understand, but HEY! my nick name is "Part-time Semi-Paranoid"!!!

Keep ur privacy stay anonymous hehehehe!

-BC

 

[antreas]

Well, what would i say...

I HAVE ABOUT 15YRS AGO LEFT BEHIND ANY SOCIALMEDIA ACCOUNTS AND WILL NEVER BEEN anymore PARTICIPATE.
Sorry capslock, but im too lazy to wrote it again. Okay, this is also kind of "socialmedia account",but i do not count this groups like ,twitter,facebook etc crap! I use irl!! instead of those.

And there is a phrase, "humans are like machines", well maybe this is only my imagination :d . But,like i have sayid manytime before do not TRUST passwordgenerators nor password/credentials saver, like lastpass etc.. Just think this case like common sense, make ur own passwords, and do not share them any thirparty solutions and keep those safe in ur mind if you are good for keep passphrase in ur head or wrote those down like piece of paper or like notepad and store it like vaulted flashdrive. Thats what i do and i neve ever gonna give browser let it keep my passwords im browser "memory".

Well, thats a kind of thing people doesnt understand, but HEY! my nick name is "Part-time Semi-Paranoid"!!!

Keep ur privacy stay anonymous hehehehe!

-BC

I don't use facebook but i use twitter to read the latest news from websites i follow.

 

[Crypto]

How people will be able to see if their accounts are hacked. any alternative?

Have I been pwned? - Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach (great alternative)

 

[Bryan Lam]

Sites been down for a few days, Leaked Source was the biggest and most reliable site with heaps of dumps from different site breaches. Raids on their datacenters were just waiting to happen. I'd recommend not using others to keep safe but if you're using it to check your OWN information it should be fine.

Still, nothing is confirmed but when something has to be raided it's big.

 

[Crypto]

Another (similar) database searching engine is Public DB Host - Public Database Directory - Public DB Host

Besides looking up accounts you simply have the ability to look up the database and download it.

 

[Zero Knowledge]

Not surprised LeakedSource was targeted by law enforcement. They paid hackers for stolen databases and then made money off stolen data. Talk about questionable ethics. They also logged all searches by users and collected IP addresses from every user. I'm glad I never used them

https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is the most legitimate website for data breaches because it's free to the public.

 

[Bryan Lam]

Funnily enough, the users on a specific forum which i'm not going to name who sold the databases to the owner of LeakedSource were Targetted by the FBI And were forced to remove an entire subforum which involved malicious intent such as ddos.