Rescator is the name of a

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specialising in the sale of credit card details. According to Russian cyber-security 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

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s, the site is free to use, payments requiring direct Bitcoin payments to sellers without

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features more common on darknet markets. Many of the stolen details from the

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and

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

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