Hernandez notes that Briansclub is a prominent player in the underground world of online extortion, but has been comparatively benign this fall in the context of the sale and transfer of stolen data. It operates mainly on forums such as briansclub cm and briansclub cc working as a market to cash in on stolen financial information. As such the forum is very interesting to criminals that want illegal access to credit cards. The promise of low-cost credit card data draws people into this underworld,