If your credit card information is on the dark web you need to immediately contact your credit card issuer, monitor your online accounts for any suspicious activity or transactions, check your credit report and place a fraud alert on your credit report as an extra precaution. Continue reading to learn how your credit card information could have gotten on the dark web and how to keep your credit card information safe in the future.
December 9 marks two years since the world went on high alert because of what was deemed one of the most critical zero-day vulnerabilities ever: Log4Shell. The vulnerability that carried the highest possible severity rating (10.0) was in Apache Log4j, an ubiquitous Java logging framework that Veracode estimated at the time was used in 88 percent of organizations.