Rescator is the name of a Ukrainian hacker specialising in the sale of credit card details. According to Russian

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consultancy Group-IB, "Rescator" (AKA Helkern and ikaikki) runs his own marketplace at rescator.cc and uploaded over 5 million card details onto the SWIPED carder marketplace. Credit card details have been stolen from places like

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and the

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, the website allows searches by zip code so that stolen card numbers can be cashed out more locally to their victim to avoid alerting banks. Unlike the now defunct Tor Carding Forums, the site is free to use, payments requiring direct

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payments to sellers without

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features more common on

darknet market A darknet market is a commercial website on the Dark Web, dark web that operates via darknets such as Tor (anonymity network), Tor or I2P. They function primarily as black markets, selling or brokering transactions involving Illegal drug trade, dru ...

s. Many of the stolen details from the

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and Sally Beauty data breaches ended up at the site. In March 2014, the site was briefly defaced by a rival hacker.

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