Carding Mafia (December 2021) Data Breach

What happened?

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.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is December 28, 2021. The record was added to the catalogue on January 16, 2022 and last updated there on January 16, 2022.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• IP addresses
• Passwords
• Usernames

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with Carding Mafia (December 2021) or used cardmafia.cc around December 28, 2021. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.