You Websites Counterfeit products are published in several languages from English to Swedish and were created to Attract paying consumers who share confidential personal data.
More than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been tricked into sharing bank card details and other personal data with a huge network of fake online stores, which appear to be run from China.
For example, according to data analyzed by IT experts and journalists, Europeans and North Americans shared email addresses with each other Of those 800,000 consumers, 476,000 shared debit and credit card data, including their three-digit security number. They also shared full names, phone numbers and mailing addresses.
Over the past three years, more than one million “requests” have been processed. Not everyone was paid, but the group may have tried to steal up to 50 million euros.
It is true that many of these fake stores have disappeared, however More than 22,500 of them are still in operation.
The existence of this network of fake stores was revealed by Security Research Labs (SR Labs), a German cybersecurity consulting firm that obtained several gigabytes of data and shared it with the newspaper. Oil dies.
In statements by L guardianJake Moore, Global Cybersecurity Consultant for Programming“, states, “Data [pessoais] “It is the new currency.”
“We must assume that the Chinese government has access to the data.”
The personal data may be Valuable to secret agencies Who want to do surveillance.
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