"Social Blade Admits to Being Hacked"
The popular data analytics company Social Blade has admitted to being hacked. Social Blade offers a data analytics tool based in the US that tracks social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok. The company claims to have seven million unique visitors to its website each month. Social Blade stated that it had been notified of a systems breach on December 14, while insisting no credit card data had been leaked. Other Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as email addresses, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, hashes used to conceal passwords, client IDs, and authentication tokens for connected accounts, were among the data offered for sale on a dark web forum by the hacker behind the incident. Based on a cursory examination of the hacker's breach notification, a Cybernews researcher believes the threat actor may have performed a SQL injection attack. The hacker, who claims to have breached Social Blade in September, also stated that they intended to make only a few sales before deleting the thread advertising the data, but no price was listed. This article continues to discuss the Social Blade hack.