An expert is urging the public to be aware of the risks.
It found access to hacked Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram accounts can be bought for $119.“When personal information has been obtained through a hack, people don’t understand the value of it,” BDO’s national forensics leader Michael Cassidy told 7NEWS.com.au.“Or, in a lot of cases, it’s not very valuable. It’s cheap to buy and it’s easy for people with nefarious ideas to purchase it and use it.
“When you hear data’s been hacked, personal information’s been taken, no one really knows what the value of it is, other than the personal inconvenience of getting it replaced.What’s more, researchers observed a 32 per cent increase in the number of hacked social media accounts being sold on the dark web from 2021 to 2023.People can access a contact list of “professional hackers” for just $18. There are also approximately 10,000 hacked ChatGPT accounts for sale, the report says.
The inaugural report looked at data from April 1 to June 30 and researchers intend to release new versions of the report regularly to analyse trends over time.
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