More than one million credit card details leaked online
Many of them are still current
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In an extremely sinister marketing stunt, a dark web carding marketplace called BidenCash has published the details of more than 1.2 million credit cards online.
According to aBleepingComputerreport, thedatabaseincludes card numbers, expiration dates, CVV numbers, cardholder names, bank names, card types, physical addresses, email addresses, social security numbers and phone numbers.
Not only is this selection of data more than enough to commit financial fraud, it could also be used foridentity theftas well. What’s more, many of the cards won’t expire before 2023, and some will even remain valid until 2026, the report states.
Victims worldwide
While the database contains details on cards from all over the world, most of them belong to US citizens, it was said. Other countries include Greenland, Iran, India, Bolivia, and Venezuela.
The total number of exposed cards is 1,221,551. These details are usually obtained through point-of-salemalware, magecart attacks, or other infostealers.
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Even though it sounds farfetched, this seems to be nothing more than a publicity stunt. According toBleepingComputer, BidenCash recently suffered a devastating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, forcing it set up under new URLs.
To make sure it reaches as many cybercriminals as possible, BidenCash distributed the data dump via a clearnet domain, as well as via other hacking and carding forums.
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The database of details was released last Friday and has since been confirmed as authentic by multiple sources, includingBleepingComputerand D3Lab. The latter believes roughly a third (30%) are current, meaning at least 350,000 cards could still be valid.
Sead is a seasoned freelance journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He writes about IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity (ransomware, data breaches, laws and regulations). In his career, spanning more than a decade, he’s written for numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera Balkans. He’s also held several modules on content writing for Represent Communications.
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