Security

Nightmare Market Security Breach

Nightmare Market had a security breach and it’s users funds were stolen through SQL injection. Nightmare Market is an online darkweb marketplace and is considered the second largest active darknet market, was founded in 2018.

Nightmare marketplace offers a variety of illegal contents such as drugs, stolen data and counterfeit items, all using the Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, Litecoin, Dash, and Zcash cryptocurrencies.

A screenshot of Nightmare Marketplace at the time of writing

The hacker could breach into Nightmare Market through SQL injection and stole unknown amount of cryptocurrencies. Nightmare market disabled all withdrawals and lots of it’s users complained about missing BTC funds.

The hacker posted screenshots of Nightmare Market backend on Dread (Darkweb’s Reddit).

Nightmare Market Admin Section
Nightmare Market sale stats

At the time of writing, Nightmare Market has resumed operation and it’s website is back online.

M. Ali

Daily cryptocurrency trader, miner, technology enthusiast and a full time IT and security consultant. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to email him at nabil@wibbic.com

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