The Internet's largest marketplace for stolen credit card information has announced it will be shutting down soon. Joker's Stash, which has gained notoriety as the place where loot from identity theft attacks is put up for sale, will close on February 15. The marketplace administrator announced the closure of a number of cybercrime forums that are often frequented by buyers and sellers of the site. More information about the shutdown also comes from threat intelligence firm Intel 471, which published a blog post detailing some of the recent difficulties with Joker's Stash. "The Joker's Stash drop comes after a very turbulent close to 2020," the blog read. “In October, the actor allegedly running the site announced that he had contracted COVID-19 and spent a week in the hospital. The condition affected the site's forums, inventory replenishment, and other operations. Intel 471 also observed customers on the site complaining that the quality of the store's payment card data was deteriorating. "