Data was from around six years ago.
A massive 25 GB data trove, purportedly pilfered from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran's Nuclear Power Production Development division, included information recycled from an older breach as part of an attempt to likely dupe potential buyers.
The trove included NPPD employee names, IDs, and cryptocurrency assets, as well as Iranian nuclear power program files, were from a dataset exposed between 2019 to 2020, according to Cybernews researchers.
"We see it every day, older leaks re-emerge with a new price tag, and there is a demand for that. Data doesn't expire as it can be reused from victim profiling to credential stuffing at scale. Old data will be reused again and again until the last penny is drained from it," said researchers.
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