In a staggering breach of personal information, more than 3.4 million credit cards have surfaced on the dark web. This extensive release of sensitive data, encompassing card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV numbers, has made its debut on a dark web carding marketplace known as Premium Carding Group reported by Hack Forums.

Shockingly, this release permits anyone to freely download these details, effectively opening the door to widespread financial fraud. The file encompasses credit cards from around the world, with a notable concentration in the United States, bearing expiration dates ranging from 2023 to 2026.



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This cache of 3.4 million credit cards exposes an array of critical credit card-related and personal information, such as:

Card number
Expiration date
CVV number
Holder's name
Bank name
Card type, status, and class
Holder's address, state, and ZIP code
Email address
Social Security Number (SSN)
Phone number
While not all of the aforementioned details are available for every one of the 3.4 million records, the majority of entries observed by C2C Media contain over 70% of these data types.

To ascertain the authenticity of this leak, the platform sought the expertise of analysts at D3Lab. Their investigation confirmed that the data is indeed genuine, as they were able to verify it with several banks, affirming the validity of the leaked credit cards and their respective cardholders.

However, the investigators also discovered that a significant portion of the entries had been recycled from previous data breaches, and a number of them were already blocked by their respective banks. Consequently, the actual number of usable entries within this leaked collection may be Between 80% to 90%, as per the findings reported by C2C Media and D3Lab.