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Stolen passports

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SCANNED copies of Australian passports are being sold for as little as $16.50 by criminals on one of the dark web’s largest marketplac­es, according to cybersecur­ity company NordVPN.

The unnamed trading market has illegally sold hundreds of thousands of stolen identifica­tion credential­s, worth more than $23 million, since it was launched.

While scanned versions of real passports are the most common stolen commodity, the security company also found that passport forgeries can trade for around $1,500, while stolen physical passports can fetch up to $10,000 if they are issued by first world countries.

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