Nearly 60 million compromised payment card records were posted for sale on dark web platforms in 2022, according to new report.
Researchers with Recorded Future’s Insikt Group said the numbers were actually a stark decrease compared to the numbers seen in 2021, which reached almost 100 million compromised payment card records. The Record is an editorially independent unit of Recorded Future.
Hackers physically compromise merchant devices to steal payment card data to facilitate Card-Present (CP) transactions. While cybercriminals typically use digital compromises — often with Magecart e-skimmer infe