The details of the Swarmshop Darknet payment card market have been removed for the second time in two years and published on a competing underground website. The breach includes all of Swarmshop's records and all the data exchanged on the platform with the stolen credit card.
Group-IB, the global threat chasing business, has detected that Swarmshop credit card shop consumer data was leaked on the internet on 17 March 2021. As per the Group IB, details of 623,036 bank cards provided by banks in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, China, Singapore, France, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico have been dumped into the Swarmshop dump.
Though recently, Swarmshop Carding Store seems to have been a common, illegal digital shopping market where cybercriminals were permitted to sell and buy stolen card and banking information. However, it remains unclear as to who has extracted this information, or how and when. The leak revealed massive amounts of data comprising data on four website operators, 90 sellers, and 12,250 purchasers. The researchers have written, "The dump included criminals' nicknames, hashed passwords and account balance and contact details for some entries.”
The researchers also found that “498 sets of online banking account credentials and 69,592 sets of US Social Security Numbers and Canadian Social Insurance Numbers.”
The one who breached Swarmshop did not warn the hacker and only sent a message with a connection to the database. At first, the administrators of the Card Shop claimed that the information was linked to a prior breach of the platform by a hacker in January 2020. However, their passwords were requested to be modified. Group-IB reviewed the current dump and found it fresh b ..
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