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Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach

October 29, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, andrei barysevich, briansclub breach, data breaches, Gemini Advisory, mastercard, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Visa

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:47:58 +0000

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world’s largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people.

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“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

October 15, 2019 admin Allison Nixon, andrei barysevich, briansclub, briansclub hack, data breaches, Flashpoint, Gemini Advisory, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:05:09 +0000

“BriansClub,” a popular underground store for buying stolen credit card data that uses Yours Truly’s likeness in its advertising, has itself been hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone.