Singapore, Malaysia credit card details dumped online in massive data breach

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Singapore, Malaysia credit card details dumped online in massive data breach
March 6, 2020
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Hundreds of thousands of credit card details from at least six Southeast Asian countries – including Malaysia and Singapore – have been leaked online, according to India-based cybersecurity start-up Technisanct.

The company said this week it had found a series of data breaches involving credit card details issued by top banks in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand.

“The results are alarming as it seems no one is aware that such a huge volume of payment card details – including the CVV and PIN – are available,” said CEO Nandakishore Harikumar, referring to the card verification value and personal identification number.
Technisanct said its research found that credit card holders in the Philippine were the worst hit, with 172,828 cards breached, while Malaysia and Singapore had 37,145 and 25,290 cards breached respectively.

This Week in Asia understands the CERTs of both Vietnam and Malaysia are investigating the matter.
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Technisanct: 310000 Cards from 1136 BINS of South East Asian Banks actively available for sale in Darkweb

Technisanct, a cyber security startup based in India specialized in Threat Intelligence domain, has found a series of breached data involving payment card details breach belonging to top banks in the six major South East Asian countries. The data dumps found in various dark-web forums where it is put on sale, had more than 300K payment card details including their CVV, Expiry date.

Researchers believe that these numbers may be collected using phishing network, through some kind of malware attack on individuals, through fraudulent apps or through POS machines. The team analyzed the following no of BINS for identifying 310K breached cards.
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