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Website selling stolen credit card numbers is shut down

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Dissent

James Dean reports:

One of the web’s largest criminal markets for stolen credit and debit cards has gone offline after being exposed by The Times.

Bestvalid.cc, which sold personal and financial information stolen from 100,000 Britons for as little as £1.67, disappeared yesterday.

Read more on The Times (sub. req.)


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