Online retailers and banking services have made our lives easier, but they have also made it easier for cyber thieves to steal our data. A new study has found that hackers are snatching 50 to 100 credit cards at a time and selling these batches for $250,000 to $1 million. Researchers discovered hackers use online forums that are for buying and selling goods, to sell your information. Scroll down for video  A new study finds that hackers are stealing 50 to 100 credit cards at a time and selling them from $250,000 to $1 million. Researchers found that hackers use online forums that are for buying and selling goods, to sell your information WHAT TYPES OF DATA ARE HACKERS STEALING AND HOW MUCH ARE THEY SELLING IT FOR? 44.7 percent of sellers offer other users bank account or credit card data, as well as CVV data from credit cards (34.9 percent) and electronic data, such as eBay and PayPal accounts (1.4%). Besides credit and debit cards being stolen and sold, thieves are going as far to sell identity documents such as passports and driver licenses. Dumps were the most common item on the list, they sold for more than $102.60 each and the second prevalent item was CVVs ($26.21), followed by eBay and PayPal accounts ($27.25).  In general, the average costs for data were lower than that of data manipulation services such as identity documents ($138.46), drops ($192.37), cashout services ($1,076.93), money transfers ($1,424.59) and bank accounts ($700.00). Holt noted that hackers who capture data in the field, such as gathering numbers from ATM machines, can cash the information in for about $2.4 million. MasterCard and Visa showed to be the two providers at higher risk of being affected by hackers, then American Express, followed by Discover.

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