GnosticPlayers is a

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group, which is believed to have been formed in 2019 and gained notability for hacking

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, and several other online services. ''

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'' reported that GnosticPlayers had claimed responsibility for hacking other online businesses, and stealing hundreds of millions of credentials from web databases such as MyFitnessPal,

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, and fourteen others; and subsequently selling these credentials on the

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Reported members

In 2020, cybersecurity author Vinny Troia published a report listing the following core group members: *Maxime Thalet-Fischer, who went under the aliases DDB, Casper, RawData and Pumpkin, was the seller of the group. *Nassim Benhaddou, who went under the alias Prosox, was a member of the group and was known to be Gabriel's early associate. According to Troia, Benhaddou later went on to form the group ShinyHunters. In 2019, Nassim Benhaddou, Gabriel Kimiaie-Asadi Bildstein, as well as Maxime Thalet-Fischer, were arrested after Gabriel confessed that they hacked Gatehub. The hack reportedly involved the theft of $9.5 million worth of cryptocurrency.

Companies affected

GnosticPlayers have taken public responsibility for the following data breaches: 500px • 8fit •

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• Animoto • Armor Games • Artsy • Avito • BlankMediaGames • Bookmate • Bukalapak • Canva • Chegg • CoffeeMeetsBagel • Coinmama • Coubic • DailyBooth • DataCamp • DubSmash • Edmodo • Epic Games • Evite • EyeEm • Fotolog • GameSalad • Gatehub • Ge.tt • GfyCat • HauteLook • Houzz • iCracked • Ixigo • Legendas.tv • LifeBear •

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• LovePlanet • mefeedia • MindJolt • MyFitnessPal •

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• MyVestigage • Netlog & Twoo • OMGPop • Onebip • Overblog • Petflow • PiZap • PromoFarma • RoadTrippers • Roll20 • ShareThis • Shein • Singlesnet • Solstice • Storenvy • StoryBird • StreetEasy • Stronghold Kingdoms • Taringa • Wanelo • WhitePages •

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• Yanolja •

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• YouNow • Youthmanual • Zomato •

References

Hacker groups Hacking in the 2020s {{computer-security-stub Hacking in the 2010s

Reported members

Companies affected

See also

References