While the risk to individuals from malspam actors always increase following data breaches, the real risk here is that car thieves will use this data to find expensive cars to locate targets. RDC said it was unaware of the hack prior to the data being published online. Binary Defense analysts regularly monitor forums used for cybercrime operations, including the English-language Raid Forums (where this data was published) and many Russian-language cybercrime forums and other sources to provide our Counterintelligence clients with advanced warning if their company name or executives names are mentioned.

Source: https://therecord.media/data-for-7-3-million-dutch-car-owners-sold-on-hacking-forum/