$38 million worth of gift cards stolen and sold on dark web
Share Easy to redeem and hard to trace, gift cards remain a hot commodity in the criminal underground A cybercriminal has sold almost 900,000 gift cards and over 300,000 payment cards on a top-tier cybercrime forum on the dark web. The total value of the cards was claimed to be some US$38 million. The hacker probably gained access to the data by compromising the backend infrastructure of a gift card marketplace. According to a report by fraud intelligence firm Gemini Advisory, the stolen cards originated from a 2019 breach of an online discount gift card marketplace that...