Credit Cards Stolen from Target Are Flooding the Black Market: Report

Credit-card data stolen during a massive data breach at Target last month is hitting the black market, according to multiple reports.

Cybersecurity firm Easy Solutions "noticed a 10- to 20-fold increase in the number of high-value stolen cards on black market websites, from nearly every bank and credit union," The New York Times reported. Easy Solutions did not immediately respond to Mashable's request for comment

Security blogger Brian Krebs, who broke the original story about the Target hack, also reported on Friday that thieves have been selling batches of 1 million cards at "$20 to more than $100 per card." Read more...