Really sickening that this sort of stuff is going to inevitably be aggressivly marketed to unsuspecting people. Tunnelbear(same company) is shilled extremely hard by youtube tech content creators who should know better, to people who trust them.

Most analysis I can find (admittedly, I've only tried a few variations of the search on Google) says TunnelBear is a relatively decent paid VPN. Are you implying TunnelBear, the company, shouldn't be trusted? If not, why not?

One reason would be that they allegedly steal passwords entrusted to their password manager.

Someone needs to replicate this because it wouldn't make any sense for them to make use of them on day one rather than wait and accumulate.

Since you're anonymous anyways, why not just tell us what you know? Are they breached or is the platform itself some sort of trap?

This type of behavior one would expect from a sketchy site so these early test results are somewhat surprising to be honest. I will be doing further testing in the next few weeks by throwing a few more honeypot accounts in different accounts created under different ip's. What I'm curious about is whether they do a bulk search for a keyword such as "SSH" across their database or do they target accounts from a certain geographic location and not touch others.

Another possible theory is that the site has a weakness and has been breached but they are just not aware of it. At this point it's a bit too early too tell though.

I encourage other people to test this on their end as well. It's actually very easy to do, spin up a vm image in the cloud, throw some test creds and see who falls for the bait. I keep a simple spreadsheet with unique usernames in one column and the service I stored those honeypot accounts in the next column. If one of those are accessed then I know for certain which services not to trust.

Oh man, I thought you worked for remembear and were outing them! This makes way more sense. And yea, that's really clever, but you really think they'll still be trying this after posting about it publicly?

That's quite astonishing. Have you done the same sort of check with other password managers like LastPass? Really hope this isn't widespread.

This is not a widespread issue by any means. All the reputable online password managers that I have tested so far in the last several years haven't attempted to access any of the honeypot accounts. I'm a pentester by day so this is more of a side hobby I do in my off time.

Can anyone else verify these observations? Talk about honeypots... sheesh.