Your ID for Sale - Cheap!

[Mousey]

Read this on Dark Reading -- it requires a login so I won't post a link...

Kelly Jackson Higgins November 19, 2013
Just in time for the holidays, the price of a stolen identity has dropped as much as 37 percent in the cybercrime underground: to $25 for a U.S. identity, and $40 for an overseas identity.

Researcher Joe Stewart of Dell SecureWorks teamed with independent researcher David Shear to get an insider's look at what a plethora of hacking services and stolen data cost these days in the underground. Among their findings: For $300 or less, you can acquire credentials for a bank account with a balance of $70,000 to $150,000, and $400 is all it takes to get a rival or targeted business knocked offline with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire attack. Meanwhile, ID theft and bank account credentials are getting cheaper because there is just so much inventory (a.k.a. stolen personal information) out there.

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[The Viking]

Have a look at this scary .

 

[Igor82]

Scary!