Account Market Intelligence
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A vendor blog reported an underground forum post claiming to offer more than 20 million OpenAI account credentials, with sample data presented as proof. Other forum participants disputed whether the credentials granted account access, and the claimed compromise was never substantiated.
View sourceTrend Micro documents services that resell one-time SMS verification codes so that buyers can register accounts in bulk on major platforms including Google. The researchers found one such service drawing its numbers from a botnet of thousands of compromised Android handsets whose owners were unaware their devices were intercepting verification messages.
View sourceAn investigation described a large-scale operation manufacturing engagement and follower accounts aimed primarily at Instagram, with production concentrated in South and Southeast Asia. Revenue and volume figures were the operator's own unverified claims.
View sourceGoogle researchers working with university partners studied the market for phone-verified Google accounts, obtaining 4,695 such accounts from underground sellers and analysing roughly 300,000 phone-verified accounts Google had disabled for abuse. Sellers depended heavily on free internet-telephony numbers and short-lived numbers concentrated in a small number of countries, and the paper reports advertised prices for Google phone-verified accounts falling by 30 to 40 percent as that number supply spread.
View sourceMarket activity is an external indicator of abuse incentives, not a measurement of fraudulent accounts on the underlying platform. Prices are never inferred — an observation without a published figure is recorded without one. See the methodology for scoring and confidence rules.