Nearly 94 Billion Stolen Cookies Found on Dark Web

Nearly 94 Billion Stolen Cookies Found on Dark Web

The analysis of these stolen cookies revealed a treasure trove of personal data. When analyzing these stolen cookies, ‘ID’ (Assigned ID was associated with 18 billion cookies) and ‘session’ (associated with 1.2 billion cookies) were identified as the most common keywords, indicating the type of data they held.

These are crucial for maintaining active user sessions on websites, meaning a stolen session ID could grant an attacker direct access to an account without needing a password. Alarmingly, out of the total 93.7 billion stolen cookies analysed, 15.6 billion were still active, posing an immediate threat to users.

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