Hacker Group Steals 500,000 Customers’ Data From Billing Platform Provider

Client management billing platform WHMCS last week notified customers that hacker group UGNazi fooled its Web hosting firm into providing the hackers with administrative credentials.

The hackers stole the data, deleted it from the hosting provider’s systems, and then posted it on the Web.

UGNazi also gained access to WHMCS’s Twitter account, which it used to publicize a series of posts on Pastebin that contained links to locations from which the billing firm’s customer records and other sensitive data might be downloaded. A total of 500,000 records, including customer credit card details, were leaked as a result of the hack, according to news reports.

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