Your personal data is available on bot market for just Rs 490: NordVPN

Data is considered to be the new gold. Everyone wants data and one is ready to share their own. According to an estimation by NordVPN, at least 5 million people’s data has been stolen and sold on the bot market for a nominal price.

While we might usually associate the word bot with an autonomous program that is usually designed to repeat a set of instructions. In this case, data-harvesting malware is considered a bot, where, the bot market refers to a place that hackers use to sell the hacked data.

In most cases, the data includes personal information like logins, cookies, digital fingerprints, and screenshots.