Carders.cc, a German forum for trading stolen financial data, was recently hacked.

"The once-guarded contents of its servers are now being traded on public file-sharing networks, leading to the exposure of potentially identifying information on the forum’s users as well as countless passwords and credit card accounts swiped from unsuspecting victims," writes Krebs on Security's Brian Krebs.

"On the surface, it’s tempting to grin at the misfortune of these fraudsters," Krebs writes. "Still, the leaked database contains no small amount of password and banking information for many innocent victims."

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