Nulled is an online cracking forum. It was previously shut down July 4th, 2024, but as of August 2024, the website is back up.

Nulled
Type of site
Internet forum
Available inEnglish
URLwww.nulled.to wgod.co
AdvertisingYes
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired to access features
Launched2014
Current statusInactive as of July 4th, 2024

In 2016, Nulled became known as a target of a data breach which helped law enforcement to obtain information about possible 'suspects', who were registered on Nulled.[1][2][3]

Data breach

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On 16 May 2016, Nulled was hacked and its database leaked.[3] The leaked data contained 9.65GB of users' personal information.[4][5] The leak included a complete MySQL database file which contained the website's entire data.[6] This data breach included 4,053 user accounts, their PayPal email addresses,[7][8] along with cracked passwords,[9] 800,593 user personal messages, 5,582 purchase records and 12,600 invoices.[2] The data breach also exposed email addresses hosted on government domains.[1][3][10] The identity of the crew that took down Nulled's database is not known, but there was speculation that state-sponsored hackers were involved.[10] Another article reported that a Romanian group claimed responsibility for the data breach.[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Data Leaked From Hacker Forum Nulled.io | SecurityWeek.Com". www.securityweek.com. 16 May 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b Osborne, Charlie. "Nulled.IO hacking forum data breach exposes attackers in the shadows". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 28 July 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Nulled.IO: Should've Expected The Unexpected!". RBS. 10 May 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  4. ^ Cimpanu, Catalin (14 May 2016). "Famous Nulled.io Hacking Forum Suffers Devastating Data Breach". softpedia. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  5. ^ Kyoung, Son (17 May 2016). "유명 해킹포럼 'Nulled.IO' 해킹...전체 사용자 정보 유출". ZDNet Korea.
  6. ^ "Nulled.IO Hacking Forum Hacked, Trove of Data Stolen". HackRead. 16 May 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  7. ^ "The popular crime forum Nulled.io pwned by hackers". Security Affairs. 16 May 2016. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  8. ^ "В Интернет выложен полный дамп базы хакерского сайта nulled.io". www.securitylab.ru (in Russian). 16 May 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  9. ^ "Don't laugh, but one of the world's top hacker websites just got hacked". Metro. 17 May 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  10. ^ a b at 22:17, Iain Thomson in San Francisco 17 May 2016. "Dark web hacking forum hacked and members' privates exposed". www.theregister.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Aldershoff, Jan Willem (10 May 2016). "Hackers obtain userdata and private messages of crack sharing community". Myce.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.