Carding Mafia (December 2021) data breach: 303K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-01-16
In December 2021, the Carding Mafia forum suffered a data breach that exposed over 300k members' email addresses. Dedicated to the theft and trading of stolen credit cards, the forum breach also exposed usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. This breach came only 9 months after another breach of the forum in March 2021. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Dec 28, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 16, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Carding Mafia (December 2021) account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
Sources
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