{"id":51799,"date":"2020-07-23T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2669178"},"modified":"2020-07-23T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:55:00","slug":"instacart-users-personal-data-including-order-history-is-reportedly-being-sold-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/instacart-users-personal-data-including-order-history-is-reportedly-being-sold-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Instacart users\u2019 personal data, including order history, is reportedly being sold online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4001-logo.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-entry-summary p-dek\">But Instacart denies there&rsquo;s been a breach of their systems<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-entry-summary p-dek\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/M0avotDF1jKRCxfYXWfHN5vQiWw=\/0x0:4032x3024\/1200x800\/filters:focal(1694x1190:2338x1834)\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67095886\/VRG_4031_IMG_8003.0.0.jpeg\" width=\"672\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"LUt2gv\">The personal data of hundreds of thousands of Instacart users is being sold on the dark web for around $2 per person, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/janelytvynenko\/instacart-customers-info-sold-online\">report from&nbsp;<em>BuzzFeed<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"j7gmj0\">The publication says information including &ldquo;names, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and order histories&rdquo; appearing to belong to 278,531 Instacart accounts is available to buy. (Though it&rsquo;s impossible to verify that this number doesn&rsquo;t include duplicates or incorrect data.)&nbsp;<em>BuzzFeed<\/em>&nbsp;did confirm with two Instacart users that the order date, transaction amount, and credit card numbers included in the cache matched their recent purchases. The data also includes users&rsquo; emails addresses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"GhtnLZ\"><q>IT&rsquo;S NOT CLEAR WHAT THE SOURCE OF THE DATA IS<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"RIHRpq\">Instacart denies that there&rsquo;s been a data breach of its systems, but says it&rsquo;s investigating the issue and has reached out to potentially affected users. A spokesperson for the company told&nbsp;<em>The Verge<\/em>&nbsp;that it was contacting customers whose data might have been compromised not because of a data breach, but because of phishing attacks or credential stuffing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"X42w2N\">Credential stuffing is where hackers take login information posted online as a result of leaks or breaches and use it to try and access different accounts belonging to the same targets. It&rsquo;s often successful because people tend to re-use passwords across the web.<\/p>\n<div class=\"m-ad m-ad__dynamic_ad_unit mb-3 m-ad__desktop_article_body_failsafe dfp_ad-wrapper--is-filled\" data-concert-ads-name=\"desktop_article_body_failsafe\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-desktop_article_body_failsafe\" class=\"dynamic-js-slot dfp_ad--rendered dfp_ad--is-filled\" data-google-query-id=\"COHKjNzD4-oCFYVB9ggdZwEFag\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/172968584\/verge_13__container__\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"zSxVVZ\"><em>BuzzFeed<\/em>&nbsp;reports that the data for sale dated back to June with the most recent upload covering July 22nd. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s looking recent and totally legit,&rdquo; cybersecurity expert Nick Espinosa told the publication after reviewing the data.<\/p>\n<p id=\"7YMLHN\">Instacart says any breached accounts are temporarily suspended and users forced to update their passwords.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6Hkoa8\">&ldquo;We are not aware of any data breach at this time. We take data protection and privacy very seriously,&rdquo; a spokesperson for the company told&nbsp;<em>BuzzFeed<\/em>. &ldquo;Outside of the Instacart platform, attackers may target individuals using phishing or credential stuffing techniques. In instances where we believe a customer&rsquo;s account may have been compromised through an external phishing scam outside of the Instacart platform or other action, we proactively communicate to our customers to auto-force them to update their password.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/janelytvynenko\/instacart-customers-info-sold-online\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/janelytvynenko\/instacart-customers-info-sold-online<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>James Vincent<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>James Vincent<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4001-logo.png\" alt=\"\">But Instacart denies there&rsquo;s been a breach of their systems The personal data of hundreds of thousands of Instacart users is being sold on the dark web for around $2 per person, according to a&nbsp;report from&nbsp;BuzzFeed. The publication says information including &ldquo;names, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and order histories&rdquo; appearing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/23\/instacart-users-personal-data-including-order-history-is-reportedly-being-sold-online\/\">Continue reading <span>Instacart users&rsquo; personal data, including order history, is reportedly being sold online<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/instacart-users-personal-data-including-order-history-is-reportedly-being-sold-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Instacart users\u2019 personal data, including order history, is reportedly being sold online - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/instacart-users-personal-data-including-order-history-is-reportedly-being-sold-online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Instacart users\u2019 personal data, including order history, is reportedly being sold online - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"But Instacart denies there&rsquo;s been a breach of their systems The personal data of hundreds of thousands of Instacart users is being sold on the dark web for around $2 per person, according to a&nbsp;report from&nbsp;BuzzFeed. 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