Stolen passports
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.