Service promises the services of professional hackers
A website launched in November promises to
connect individuals in need of a hacking job, white or black, with a
professional fit for the task.
Called
Hacker’s List,
the website allows the average Joe to place announcements for a hacking
job and the price he is willing to pay for the gig. A number of hackers
that have been pre-approved by the service can enter into a bidding
competition to receive the assignment.
Different fees for different needs
From
the list of projects available on the website, breaking into online
accounts (email, social media) seems to be the most frequent type of job
posted.
However, it appears that removing content already indexed by search
engines is highly remunerated, with someone willing to pay as much as
$4,000 / €3,400 for eliminating information from Google, Bing and other
search engines.
The legitimacy of the business is controversial since some of the users
may simply want to regain control of an email address they own but
forgot the access password for it.
On the other hand, others want access to the account of a particular individual for spying purposes.
Scammers are banned from the website
The
service, which takes its profit from a commission paid for each
project, provides complete privacy (from billing to the details of the
task details are encrypted using AES 256) and guarantees against fraud.
“Our strict review process ensures that we keep scammers and frauds
away. We review every hacker for hire or professional hacker for hire
service provider to ensure the highest quality,” reads the description
of the service.
In case a professional receives too many complaints, they are banned
from the website, without the possibility to rejoin. The details of the
reviewing process or how the hackers are identified by the service are
unclear, though.
At the moment the number of registered users seems to be over 3,600,
while hackers offering their skills for hire are almost 730. According
to a tweet from the service, there are currently more than 700 projects
listed. We noticed that some of the announcements are as early as
December 2014.
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