Fortnite, Netflix and Uber accounts being sold for only £8 on the dark web

Login details for Fortnite, Netflix and Uber accounts are available for less than £8 on illicit online markets, in accordance with dark web researchers.

The latest figures come from the very first annual update of the Dark Web Market Price Index, compiled by researchers at VPN site Top10VPN.com.

A series of high-profile data breaches has contributed to a thriving online black market, with high profile data breaches involving famous brands British Airways and Mariott Hotels seeing logins inundate the dark web – an invisible part of the internet that is only accessible using specialist software.

“This can be a highly – and understandably – worrying situation for customers who may have been caught in hacks, ” said Simon Migliano, head of research at Top10VPN.com.

“Storing payment information across a whole selection of online accounts – even social media marketing – has become par for the course for many consumers as it’s simply so convenient. The downside is that if a fraudster gains access to 1 account then they, essentially, have the keys to the kingdom.”