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Watermarks used to track data through Dark Web to Russia, Nigeria

A California-based company planted fake data on the Dark Web to see how far stolen data gets before a breach is detected. Bitglass says it took just 12 days for the data to be looked at more than 1,000 times in 22 different countries. The most popular location for downloads turned out to be the Onion-pastebin. The company learned that selling stolen data is really easy to do, CEO Nat Kausik says. The study is the first year that the company has done the study, so there’s no historical data available.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2908500/watermarks-used-to-track-data-through-dark-web-to-russia-nigeria.html

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