Instacart users’ personal data, including order history, is reportedly being sold online
The personal data of hundreds of thousands of Instacart users is being sold on the dark web for around $2 per person, according to a report from BuzzFeed.
The publication says information including names, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and order histories" appearing to belong to 278,531 Instacart accounts is available to buy. (Though it's impossible to verify that this number doesn't include duplicates or incorrect data.) BuzzFeed did confirm with two Instacart users that the order date, transaction amount, and credit card numbers included in the cache matched their recent purchases. The data also includes users' emails addresses.
It's not clear what the source of the data is
Instacart denies that there's been a data...