Security News > 2021 > January > Joker's Stash, The Largest Carding Marketplace, Announces Shutdown

Joker's Stash, the largest dark web marketplace notorious for selling compromised payment card data, has announced plans to shut down its operations on February 15, 2021.

"Joker goes on a well-deserved retirement. Joker's Stash is closing," the post read. "When we opened years ago, nobody knew us. Today we are one of the largest cards/dumps marketplace[s]."

The news of the imminent shutdown comes weeks after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Interpol allegedly seized proxy servers used in connection with Blockchain-based domains belonging to the site last month, briefly disrupting its operations.

Adding to the mounting troubles was a "Severe decline" in the volume of stolen data posted on the site, leading to complaints from clients about the poor quality of the payment card data.

Then in late October, the site's routine activities also suffered after the actor who allegedly runs the site claimed to have contracted COVID-19 and had been spending more than one week in a hospital.

The site's administrator had a few parting words of advice for cybercriminals.

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