Dark Web Marketing Trick: Theft of Over a Million Credit Card Data

Recently, BidenCash, a card marketplace on the dark web, stole a database of 1,221,551 credit cards, including the owners' CVV and phone numbers. It sounds incredible, but it is assumed that this was done primarily for advertising purposes.

In the era of digitization, you can never be sure that your data will not become public knowledge. Carding is trading and using stolen credit cards. It has become an increasingly popular scam as much confidential information is connected to credit cards.

This theft covered credit card holders worldwide. Most of the victims live in the USA, among others who were not so lucky, residents of India, Bolivia, and Greenland. According to a report by BleepingComputer, the thieves exposed data that included personal information, including the name of cardholders, their postal and email addresses, telephone numbers, and insurance numbers.

BidenCash, a new player in the stolen card market, showed up in June this year. To make a name for itself in the world of cybercriminals, the platform launched a so-called marketing campaign similar to what its competitor, "All World Cards", did in 2021. Additionally, BidenCash had to rebuild its reputation after a devastating DDoS attack.

The data dump was shared via the Clearnet domain and other hacking forums. Anyone can use the published data. But D3Lab notes that only about 30% of the information is relevant, roughly 350,000 cards.

What do you think about such a situation? Are you afraid of being robbed by cyber criminals?