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Carding Mafia (March 2021) Data Breach

cardmafia.cc
Limited exposure
Verified breach Sensitive Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed 297,744
Breach date 18 Mar 2021
Added to tracker 23 Mar 2021
Data classes 4

What happened

In March 2021, the Carding Mafia forum suffered a data breach that exposed almost 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.

Exposed data

Email addresses IP addresses Passwords Usernames

Recommended actions

  • Change your Carding Mafia (March 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 (March 2021) โ€” attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
  • Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
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