The Dark Web is a fully active marketplace for illegal goods. For it, even accounts that may be useless to us are considered valuable commodities. In the rest of the article, we will look at the different types of accounts that are sold on the Dark Web.
- Financial and personal accounts.
The most common example of account sales on the Dark Web. They are usually used to steal money or personal information from users by hackers.
- Email accounts.
Email accounts sell for $0.70-$1.20 each. A hacker can do a lot with an email account, from stealing the user's personal information to making the account part of a botnet.
- Accounts on Dating sites.
Such accounts are sold for $10. This tactic may seem a bit strange, but it is actually very clever. This is because dating site accounts contain personal information, which a hacker can use to create a fake profile from scratch, for example. In some cases, they may use your account simply to communicate or try to extort money from other users.
- Netflix accounts.
If a hacker gains access to your Netflix account, they can use it to watch whatever they want for free. Netflix accounts sell for $2, a tiny fraction of the monthly legal fee. So if you notice any unusual activity in your viewing history, be sure to change password immediately.
- Accounts on adult sites.
These sites require users to pay a monthly subscription fee to access their content. Hackers bypass legitimate accounts. The cost of such an account is $1, the same as the cost of a social security number.
- Airline accounts for free flights.
Since your financial information is difficult to steal without either you or your bank noticing, hackers have changed their strategy. Now they can simply use the flight you have in your account and take a trip for you.
- PayPal accounts.
When a hacker gains access to a PayPal, they will check to see if there is any money in it. If there is, the account is usually sold on the Dark Web. The amount the account is sold for depends on how much money it contained.
- Fortnite accounts.
The question that arises here is, why would anyone sell something that is actually available for free?
Fortnite accounts are being sold on the Dark Web, where users have spent money on in-game items. These are accounts that have passed many difficult challenges or that have unlocked special features.
These are the most popular stolen accounts sold on the Dark Web, but there are certainly countless additional categories of stolen accounts.
