In this lecture, I would like to show you how can you search for leaked databases that are publicly
available on the internet?
Now we are going to use a very simple search operator that will help us to find these databases.
And as I said before, there are multiple methods to access leaked databases.
You can either have a subscription and search very simply on the hashed intelligence X, etc. or you
can download the leaked database on your computer or on your virtual machine, because we do not know
what is in these files.
That's why I highly recommend you use a virtual machine.
And if you don't want to use a virtual machine because it's slow, I recommend you have a dedicated
machine or a computer that is connected to a separate network that you use to download leaked databases,
but for now, we are going to rely on our virtual machine to download and search within these leaked
databases.
So the search operator is going to be as follows.
So I'm going to type for example the database name.
So let me say that I'm searching for 000 web host which is also a website that has been hacked.
And then I'm going to say.com and then dot seven z.
And then I'm going to close it with a quotation mark.
And then I can say leak for example and download.
And I'm also going to search for a magnet link and then hit enter.
And this showed me nine search results.
So we can see that there are multiple search results.
I can open any link and download the database.
Another resource that you can use to download a number of leaked databases is called size of dot cat.
So you want to go to this link size of dot cat.
And here you will see multiple links for multiple leaked or breached databases.
We can see AMD and a database from Raidforums that contains multiple databases.
So this database does not only contain one database, it actually contains all of these databases.
We can also see that we have Ashley Madison data leak or data breach.
We can download it using this link.
And if this link didn't work then you can search for it using the method that I've talked about at the
beginning of this lecture.
Another thing that I would like to focus on is the size of the database.
So here we can see that this database is 28GB and this one is around 270GB.
And that's why I've said that you might need large disk space or multiple SSDs or hard drives to store
huge databases.
But in your case, you can start with the Facebook, Twitter or Snapchat data leaks and utilize them
to search for someone's information.