"Information of Hundreds of European Politicians Found on Dark Web"

Security researchers at Proton have recently discovered email addresses and other information of hundreds of British, French, and European Parliament politicians on dark web marketplaces. During the study the researchers searched for nearly 2,300 official government email addresses belonging to members of the British, French and European Parliaments. In total, 918 email addresses were leaked to cybercrime marketplaces, but the percentage of impacted politicians is different for each organization. The researchers noted that British MPs were the most impacted, with 68% of the targeted email addresses appearing on the dark web. In the case of the EU Parliament members, 44% had their email addresses posted on hacker forums. Only 18% of French deputies and senators had their data exposed. British politicians, including senior government and opposition figures, had their email addresses found more than 2,100 times on the dark web.  The researchers said that in many cases, the email addresses are publicly available on government websites. The problem is that the presence of the email addresses on dark web marketplaces shows that these addresses were used to set up accounts on a wide range of third-party online services that were, at some point, hacked. These sites include Adobe, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Dailymotion, petition sites, news services, and in some cases even dating websites.

SecurityWeek reports: "Information of Hundreds of European Politicians Found on Dark Web"