Security News > 2020 > June > ‘Cardplanet’ Operator Sentenced to 9 Years for Selling Stolen Credit Cards

A cybercriminal responsible for running a "Carding" website on the Dark Web is going to federal prison for nine years for selling stolen consumer payment information.

Aleksei Burkov, a Russian national, was the operator of a website called "Cardplanet" that sold hundreds of thousands of debit- and credit-card numbers that had been hacked - mostly from U.S. citizens.

The marketplace's wares came in the form of digital card information that could be encoded on a blank card with a magnetic strip in order to produce counterfeit payment cards.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, selling that data translated into $20 million in fraudulent purchases made using U.S. credit card accounts.

It recently sentenced a former analyst for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency to more than two years in prison after he shared highly classified, national defense intelligence with two reporters.

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