01-18-2021 , 08:30 AM
The administrator of Joker's Stash, a popular and one of the longest-running marketplace for cybercriminals to purchase stolen credit cards, announced on Friday that they would permanently shut down the operation next month.
They published messages on multiple cybercriminal forums to inform about the retirement, set for February 15, and that all servers and backups would be wiped.
"It's time for us to leave forever," the administrator wrote, adding in caps that "we will never ever open again," as a warning about possible impostors trying to capitalize on the move by impersonating them.
The illegal card shop opened in 2014 and became famous for providing fresh stolen credit card data and a promise of card validity; some of the cards were touted to be exclusive to Joker's Stash.
Throughout 2020, though, operations were not running as smoothly as before, with the FBI and Interpol seizing four blockchain domains used by Joker's Stash acting as external proxy servers for the site's Tor service. The disruption was only temporary, though.
Before that, in October, the card shop's activity had dropped unexpectedly. Towards the end of the month, the administrator JokerStash posted that they had been infected with Covid-19 and had spent a week in the hospital.
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They published messages on multiple cybercriminal forums to inform about the retirement, set for February 15, and that all servers and backups would be wiped.
"It's time for us to leave forever," the administrator wrote, adding in caps that "we will never ever open again," as a warning about possible impostors trying to capitalize on the move by impersonating them.
The illegal card shop opened in 2014 and became famous for providing fresh stolen credit card data and a promise of card validity; some of the cards were touted to be exclusive to Joker's Stash.
Throughout 2020, though, operations were not running as smoothly as before, with the FBI and Interpol seizing four blockchain domains used by Joker's Stash acting as external proxy servers for the site's Tor service. The disruption was only temporary, though.
Before that, in October, the card shop's activity had dropped unexpectedly. Towards the end of the month, the administrator JokerStash posted that they had been infected with Covid-19 and had spent a week in the hospital.
Read more info HERE