The most expensive item on the list is personal attacks, which usually involve defamation, legal damage or financial interference with the attack. Changing school grades is the next most expensive service. All of the hacks require payment up front, although some promise refunds if the hack fails.

In a post on the dark web site, the hackers claimed they stole personal data from more than 6,700 people, in addition to more than 119,000 internal files from the company, totaling 225 GB in size.

Eskenazi said in late August that it had notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is cooperating with the medical facility in its investigation.

Cisco's Talos security research team says RAT malware purchased on the dark web, with simple modifications, is behind cyber attacks against the Indian government.

Ransomware gangs such as BlackMatter typically steal data from a company's network before encrypting it and then threatening to release the files online if the ransom used to decrypt them is not paid.

The attackers' goal is not to compromise systems or demand ransoms, but to collect valuable information that they can later use or sell to others. A spokesman for the UN Secretary-General said the organisation was "a frequent target of cyber attacks".

The stolen Puma data includes the source codes of internal management applications purportedly linked to the company's product management portal. That data could be used by attackers to mount a more sophisticated attack on the company.

T-Mobile continues to work around the clock to forensically analyze and investigate cyber attacks against T-Mobile systems, while also taking a number of proactive steps to protect customers and others whose information may have been compromised.

Las Vegas is pushing information to such a targeted online audience because for the first time in the nearly four decades of the Rewards for Justice program, informants have the option to receive payments in cryptocurrency and send sensitive information to the U.S. government through a secure portal on the dark web.

The acquisition comes amid a massive increase in criminal activity on the dark web, which the companies claim will help better protect global businesses on a broader scale.