Credit card details of more than a million people have been dumped online as part of a promotion by a scandalous online credit card shop.
A routine monitoring exercise discovered underground payment card shop BidenCash had released a dataset containing the information of more than 1.2 million credit and debit cards.
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Names, credit card numbers, expiration dates, CVV numbers and addresses were just some of the data leaked on a notorious cybercrime forum.
The leaked database includes details of 1,221,551 credit and debit cards, according to Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs researchers who discovered it.
“The subject release of the credit and debit cards data by BidenCash shop is one of the largest leaks of its kind on any of the cybercrime/underground forums in recent times,” Cyble said.
“Our detailed statistical analysis revealed that American Express (US) is impacted the most.
“The top 50 countries with affected consumers are the US, India, Brazil, the UK, Mexico, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Australia, and China.”
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