Threat intelligence analyst Bank Security
discovered in a hacking forum a publication of data from 10.000 holders of
American Express credit cards completely free of charge. As stated in
The post itself The actor sells more information about Mexican bank customers
of Santander, Banamex and American Express.
In the set of data exposed in the forum are
exposed full numbers of American Express accounts, name of the
customer, Full address, date of birth and other information from
Personal identification, information that has been analyzed by
BleepingComputer.
As reported by BleepingComputer, after analyzing the
10.000 Records have not found overly sensitive financial data,
such as credit card expiration dates or
User passwords, Information that would allow misuse of cards
credit posted in the forum.
The author of the publication himself has indicated that he intends to
to expose this data to be used for marketing and spam purposes. In the
Same forum thread The author declares that he will not sell the private data as
can be credit card information, identification number or
Passwords.
From American Express report that they are aware of this
information and closely monitoring the situation, refusing for the moment to give
More information about what happened.
At the moment users with Amex credit card
They must remain very attentive to any email, text message or
phone call that may seem suspicious for phishing, because
Now they will be harder to detect, as it will contain more information that it will do
Seeming the phishing campaign as real.