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.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Carding Mafia (December 2021) password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Carding Mafia (December 2021) — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.