Darknet vendors keep getting professionalized.
To promote his stolen data store, a hacker posted a list of one million bank details for free.
About 40,000 cards in the file are French, according to the site specializing in cybersecurity Zataz.
The file in question lists a certain number of data: the 16 digits of payment cards, their validity date, CVV, postal address, e-mail address ... Sometimes even telephone numbers or IP addresses.
Credit card data, some of which are valid until 2027.
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France is not the only country affected, the hacker has in his possession Italian, Turkish, Canadian cards ... In all, several dozen countries are listed.
Uncertain origin
If the hacker allows himself to make so much data available for free, it is to attract potential consumers.
The seller advertises his stock of 2.6 million bank cards, which he sells individually "
at around 6 US dollars each (5 euros)
".
It is difficult to identify the source of this data, according to the information provided by the hacker, it was collected between 2018 and 2019. It is possible that the person behind these sales is only a data reseller, as is frequently the case. the case.
A hacker makes a database available, bought by another person who can then put it up for sale himself ... A fairly common process.
In recent months a hacker has, for example, tried to resell a database dating from the "
Leak Apollo
".
A gigantic leak dating from 2018, where the data of 10 million French people were found online.
Old data, yet presented as new.
David Sygula, cybersecurity expert for CybelAngel, explained that it is "
quite common in the cybercriminal world
" for users to appropriate an old data
breach
. They often try to sell them on their behalf, even when they are still available for free.
