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500K+ RECORDS OF C-LEVEL PEOPLE FROM CAPITAL ECONOMICS LEAKED ONLINE

January 18, 2021  By Pierluigi Paganini


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EXPERTS FROM CYBLE RECENTLY FOUND A LEAK OF 500K+ RECORDS OF C-LEVEL PEOPLE FROM
CAPITAL ECONOMICS ON A RUSSIAN-SPEAKING FORUM.

During a routine Darkweb monitoring, researchers from Cyble found a leak of
500K+ records of C-level people from Capital Economics on a Russian-speaking
forum.

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CapitalEconomics.com is one of the leading independent economic research
companies in the world that provides macroeconomic, financial market and
sectoral forecasts and consultancy.

“Upon analysis of the data, Cyble discovered that there are 500K+ lines of
record containing various prominent user profiles.” reads the post published by
Cyble.

Leaked records include email IDs, password hashes, addresses, etc.  

Cyble experts informed its clients about this leak, it pointed out that the
availability of corporate email IDs could allow threat actors to carry out a
broad range of malicious activities.

Cyble recommends people to: 

 * Never share personal information, including financial information over
   phone, email or SMSes. 

 * Use strong passwords and enforce multi-factor authentication
   wherever possible. 
 * Regularly monitor your financial transactions, and if you notice any
   suspicious activity, contact your bank immediately. 
 * Turn on the automatic software update feature on your computer, mobile and
   other connected devices wherever possible and pragmatic. 
 * Use a reputed anti-virus and Internet security software package on your
   connected devices including PC, laptop, and mobile. 
 * People who are concerned about their exposure in the Darkweb can register
   at AmiBreached.com to ascertain their exposure. 
 * Refrain from opening untrusted links and email attachments without verifying
   their authenticity.  

Update Janyary 21, 2021

“Researchers at KELA have shared that this isn’t the first time that the Capital
Economics database was leaked. Irina Nesterovsky, Chief Research Officer at KELA
said, “It was originally leaked in early January in an English-speaking forum
exposing information of nearly 500K people. The second instance we saw it
appearing was when an actor tried selling it in another forum claiming that he
had a database “for Finance Company Including SQL” with 500K records. Later that
day, the same actor leaked the database for free claiming it contained data of
more than 500K C-Level executives. KELA confirmed that the same database was
shared in all instances. It appears that the “500K C level” title was given to
the post in order to boost the importance of the database – the entire size of
the relevant user database is around 500K lines, not at all a majority of which
are C-Level employees.”

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PIERLUIGI PAGANINI

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and
Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he
is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer.
Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security
expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical
Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that
security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security
blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US.
Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some
major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island,
Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security
magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency
and Bitcoin”.




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