An exploration of the factors affecting the advertised price for stolen data

eCrime Researchers Summit, eCrime

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Holt, Thomas J ^a   Chua, Yi Ting ^a   Smirnova, Olga ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carding; dumps; forum; stolen data; underground economy

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; PERSONAL COMPUTING; RESEARCH; TEXTILE CARDING; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

DUMPS; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; FORUM; GROWING BODIES; MULTIPLE MARKETS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; STOLEN DATA; UNDERGROUND ECONOMY;

COSTS;

EID: 84900812458     PISSN: 21591237     EISSN: 21591245     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eCRS.2013.6805781     Document Type: Conference Paper

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