Hackers crack the Maza forum for cybercriminals

The Maza forum, notorious for exchanging criminal data, has been hacked and hackers have revealed details of accounts. This concerns almost three thousand users, whose contact details have been exposed, among other things.

The leaked data of Maza users concerns 2,982 accounts with user IDs, names, email addresses, obfuscated passwords, certificate data and contact details related to ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN and Skype. This is reported by both Bleeping Computer and Flashpoint. The forum’s hackers posted a warning in English and Russian to Maza members on a TOR site that their data is out. It is not known who is responsible for the squat.

The origins of Maza, or Mazafuka, can be traced back to 2003, and since then, the platform has emerged as one of the most notorious places for criminals to exchange information about fraud, ransomware, credit card theft, and other cybercrimes. Users also offer services for this. Maza, where discussions mainly take place in Russian, requires users to create a certificate and password in addition to a username and password to log in. The passwords of these certificates have also appeared online, but not the certificates themselves, according to Bleeping Computer.

The hack is one in a series of attacks on cybercriminal platforms. In February, the platform for the Verified community of cybercriminals was acquired and Club2Crd for exchanging credit card information for fraud also came under fire, stealing member funds and hijacking moderator accounts. In addition, discussion platform Dread, also known as the ‘Reddit of the darknet’, is said to have suffered attacks in February.

Report of Maza cracking on a TOR site. Source: Flashpoint