In the first six months of this year, threat actors put 23 million credit and debit cards up for sale on the dark web, a new report by Sixgill shows. Almost two-thirds of these payment cards (64.49%) were from the United States.
A very distant second, the United Kingdom accounted for 7.43% of payment cards, followed by India (3.78%) and Brazil (2.18%). The majority (57%) of stolen payment card data was from Visa cards, while 29% related to Mastercard and 12% to AMEX. Stolen payment card data is cheap, with offerings starting as low as $5 per card.
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