BriansClub breach

October 29, 2019

Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach

This post was originally published on this siteReporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world’s largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people. In September, an anonymous source sent KrebsOnSecurity a link to a nearly 10 gb […]