The administrator of Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online, announced plans to shut down its operations on February 15, 2021.
The administrator of Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online, announced plans to shut down its operations on February 15, 2021.
"It's time for us to leave forever," the administrator wrote, adding in caps that "we will never ever open again," as a warning about possible impostors trying to capitalize on the move by impersonating them.
“When we opened years ago, nobody knew us. Today we are one of the largest cards/dumps marketplace[s], " the post read.
The site’s administrator said they intend to wipe all servers and backups when they shutter operations next month.
The message was published on multiple cybercriminals forums, and the exact reason for the shut down is still unclear.
Joker’s Stash opened in 2014 and was one of the most well-known underground carding sites which provide new stolen credit card data and a promise of card validity. The activity declined since mid-2020. The typically active administrator, Joker’s Stash, had several gaps in communications.
Joker’s Stash claimed that they were hospitalized due to a CVID-19 and had spent more than one week in the hospital. The decreasing number of large fresh bases also questioned their ability to source new card data.
"While this marketplace was the largest in the carding space, it also exhibited a severe decline in the volume of compromised Card Not Present (CNP) and Card Present (CP) records posted over the past six months," the Gemini researchers report. "Most other top-tier carding marketplaces actually increased their posted data (largely CNP data, while CP data declined during COVID-19 lockdowns) during this time."
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