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Here's what your identity sells for on the dark web

You may be surprised, or insulted, or enraged, to find out

Here’s what your identity sells for on the dark web
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Verified high-limit credit cards are selling on the dark web for the bitcoin equivalent of about $10 to $20

Suzanne Woolley | Bloomberg
How much is your personal data worth to you? A lot. (Thanks, Equifax.) And how much is it worth to an identity thief?

You may be surprised, or insulted, or enraged, to find out.

Verified high-limit credit cards from countries including the US, Japan, and South Korea are selling on the dark web for the bitcoin equivalent of about $10 to $20, according to an annual report on cybercrime by Secureworks, a unit of Dell.

The dark web is “the collection of Internet forums, digital shop fronts and chat rooms that cybercriminals use to form alliances, trade tools and techniques, and sell compromised

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