E-wallets, online banking, and cryptocurrency verified accounts are some of the most expensive illegal digital products for sale on the dark web. As of April 2023, details of a credit card with up to 5,000 U.S. dollars on balance could sell at around 110 U.S. dollars. Crypto accounts on N26, for instance, had an average selling price of 2,650 U.S. dollars. Social media followers can also be bought on the dark web, for example, at four dollars per 1,000 followers on Instagram. In turn, AirBNB.com verified accounts averaged 300 U.S. dollars.

Average prices in 2018 for UK stolen ID, personal data and hacked accounts for sale on darknet markets. It’s ordered by type of credential, in descending order by average sale value.

Average prices in 2018 for U.S. stolen ID, personal data and hacked accounts for sale on darknet markets. It’s ordered by type of credential, in descending order by average sale value.

Summary dataset showing average prices in 2019 for hacked log-ins for most well-known online accounts for sale on darknet markets. The dataset includes accounts for notable U.S. and UK online brands and shows price change compared to 2018 as a percentage.

This statistic presents the average price of stolen credentials on dark web marketplaces as of February 2019. The average price of an Amazon account login was 30.36 U.S. dollars. Stolen bank details were worth 259.56 U.S. dollars.

Updated average prices in 2019 for UK stolen ID, personal data and hacked accounts for sale on darknet markets. It’s ordered by type of credential, in descending order by average sale value.

Average prices in 2018 for UK stolen ID, personal data and hacked accounts for sale on darknet markets. It’s ordered by type of credential, in descending order by average sale value.

Among a wide range of illegal products for sale on the dark web, some of the most notable are hackers' services in attempting malware or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which can cause large-scale online traffic disruptions and website outages. As of March 2023, premium-quality malware attack services could sell for up to 4,500 U.S. dollars per 1,000 installs on dark marketplaces or vendors. In turn, a DDoS attack on an unprotected website lasting for a month had an average price of 750 U.S. dollars.

Certain forged documents in physical format usually sell at a higher average price than scanned versions on dark web marketplaces. For example, an original Maltese passport could sell for 4,000 U.S. dollars as of March 2023, while passports from various other European Union countries averaged 3,000. Regarding scanned versions, the price for a Alberta driver's license could reach 140 U.S. dollars.

In 2022, among internet users who used drugs in the past year, over 15 percent of people in Europe reported that they had used the darknet to purchase the drugs. In 2022, all regions worldwide saw a decrease from 2021 in the share of people who purchased drugs over the darknet, the sharpest decline was noted in North America.

The largest reported data leakage as of January 2024 was the Cam4 data breach in March 2020, which exposed more than 10 billion data records. The second-largest data breach in history so far, the Yahoo data breach, occurred in 2013. The company initially reported about one billion exposed data records, but after an investigation, the company updated the number, revealing that three billion accounts were affected. The National Public Data Breach was announced in August 2024. The incident became public when personally identifiable information of individuals became available for sale on the dark web. Overall, the security professionals estimate the leakage of nearly three billion personal records. The next significant data leakage was the March 2018 security breach of India's national ID database, Aadhaar, with over 1.1 billion records exposed. This included biometric information such as identification numbers and fingerprint scans, which could be used to open bank accounts and receive financial aid, among other government services.

Cybercrime - the dark side of digitalization As the world continues its journey into the digital age, corporations and governments across the globe have been increasing their reliance on technology to collect, analyze and store personal data. This, in turn, has led to a rise in the number of cyber crimes, ranging from minor breaches to global-scale attacks impacting billions of users – such as in the case of Yahoo. Within the U.S. alone, 1802 cases of data compromise were reported in 2022. This was a marked increase from the 447 cases reported a decade prior. The high price of data protection As of 2022, the average cost of a single data breach across all industries worldwide stood at around 4.35 million U.S. dollars. This was found to be most costly in the healthcare sector, with each leak reported to have cost the affected party a hefty 10.1 million U.S. dollars. The financial segment followed closely behind. Here, each breach resulted in a loss of approximately 6 million U.S. dollars - 1.5 million more than the global average.