Credit
Cards Stolen from Target Are
Flooding the
Black Market: Report
Credit-card data
Stolen during a
massive data breach at
Target last month is hitting the
Black market, according to multiple reports.
Cybersecurity firm Easy Solutions "**ticed a 10- to 20-fold increase in the number of high-value
Stolen Cards on
Black market websites,
from nearly every bank and
Credit union,"
The New York Times reported. Easy Solutions did **t immediately respond to
Mashable's request for comment
Security blogger Brian Krebs, who broke the original story about the
Target hack, also
reported on Friday that thieves have been selling batches of 1 million
Cards at "$20 to more than $100 per card."
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