Cybersixgill Finds Compromised Sports Streaming Credentials On the Underground

Cybersixgill has found that hackers are selling compromised sports streaming passwords on the underground. Specifically, over the past 2 years, Cybersixgill has found 31,324 posts sharing or selling streaming accounts on underground forums, markets, and messaging platforms and 17,978 posts in access markets that included credentials for a streaming service of pro sports leagues such as the NBA, NFL, MBL, and NHL.

Knowing that games have been increasingly broadcasted on cable television and subscription-only networks that cost hundreds of dollars, hackers are broadening their scope of techniques to harvest credentials. 

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